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// 80d agoMODEL RELEASE
Figure Helix 02 gains whole-body autonomy
Figure's Helix 02 extends its visuomotor stack from upper-body control to whole-body locomotion, balance, and manipulation through a unified neural system. The official launch demo centers on a four-minute autonomous dishwasher task, plus tactile and palm-camera dexterity tests such as unscrewing a bottle cap and extracting a pill.
// ANALYSIS
Figure is pitching Helix 02 as a systems breakthrough, not a one-off chore demo: one learned stack for balance, movement, and manipulation. That is the right ambition for humanoids, because stitched-together controllers still break down when tasks get longer and messier.
- –The real milestone is the move from upper-body-only Helix to continuous whole-body loco-manipulation across a room.
- –Replacing hand-engineered control code with learned priors from human motion data is a bold bet on scaling data over classical robotics pipelines.
- –Tactile fingertips and palm cameras matter as much as the model upgrade, because fine manipulation is where humanoid demos usually hit the wall.
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figureagentmultimodalautomationresearch
DISCOVERED
80d ago
2026-03-09
PUBLISHED
80d ago
2026-03-09
RELEVANCE
7/ 10
AUTHOR
socoolandawesome