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  1. RoboticsReach 39

    Figure's Helix 2.5 tackles chores across 30 unseen homes

    Figure just introduced Helix 2.5, showing its humanoid robots can walk into 30 unfamiliar homes and clean up without prior mapping or fine-tuning. Pretrained on massive human behavioral data, the model boosted zero-shot success rates from 9% to 56% across tasks like tidying toys, folding towels, and making beds. Why it matters: it proves whole-body physical intelligence can transfer from human experience rather than being trained from scratch per home.

  2. RoboticsReach 39

    OpenAI confirms humanoid robot plans

    Sam Altman just confirmed that OpenAI will "definitely" build humanoid robots, envisioning personal robots for everyone down the line. Job postings show the company is already assembling teams to manage data collection facilities and robot hardware. Why it matters: Moving beyond software puts OpenAI into direct hardware competition with Figure and Tesla while securing proprietary real-world training data.

  3. RoboticsReach 32

    Figure just inked a deal to put humanoid robots in retail warehouses

    Figure just signed a commercial agreement with Catalyst Brands, the retail operator behind JCPenney, Aéropostale, and Brooks Brothers, to deploy humanoid robots at scale. The rollout kicks off with an initial deployment in Reno, Nevada. Humanoid automation is officially pushing past auto plants into retail and logistics operations.

  4. RoboticsReach 48

    Figure streams 8 hours of autonomous robot work

    Figure just live-streamed eight consecutive hours of fully autonomous, unsupervised humanoid robot operation with zero human intervention. Following the milestone, founder Brett Adcock announced the company is pushing further with an upcoming continuous 24/7 livestream to showcase around-the-clock autonomous labor.

  5. RoboticsReach 32

    Figure's robots clean a room and make a bed in under 2 minutes

    Figure just showed off two F.03 humanoid robots autonomously tidying a room and making a bed together in under two minutes with zero human intervention. The robots coordinated across domestic chores in an unstructured home setup, taking another real step toward everyday household utility.

  6. RoboticsReach 31

    Figure's F.03 robot visits the White House

    Figure just brought its F.03 humanoid robot inside the White House, marking the first time a bipedal robot has visited the presidential grounds, according to founder Brett Adcock. While specific details were sparse, the symbolic milestone puts advanced robotics front and center in the highest-profile government setting.

  7. RoboticsReach 33

    Figure's Helix 02 tackles living room clutter

    Figure just demonstrated Helix 02 cleaning a living room using a single end-to-end neural system running directly from pixels. Without changing algorithms or writing custom controllers, the robot learned complex tasks like spraying and wiping tables, tucking bins under its arm, and operating a remote simply by training on more data.

  8. RoboticsReach 39

    Figure's humanoid fleet runs 24/7 at headquarters

    Figure just put a fleet of seven Figure 03 humanoids into 24/7 autonomous operation at its California headquarters, powered by its Helix 02 neural network. The bots monitor their own battery telemetry, stepping onto 2 kW inductive charging docks and swapping tasks without human intervention. It marks a serious technical milestone for humanoid uptime, even if Figure hasn't disclosed what actual work they're doing yet.

  9. RoboticsReach 39

    Figure's new humanoid model controls its entire body from pixels

    Figure just unveiled Helix 02, expanding its unified neural network to steer an entire humanoid robot's locomotion and manipulation directly from pixels. In an impressive kitchen demo, Figure 03 autonomously completed a 4-minute dishwasher loading and unloading task, even bumping drawers shut with its hip when its hands were full. Why it matters: Replacing tens of thousands of lines of fragile C++ code with end-to-end learned control is a massive step toward humanoids doing real household chores.

  10. RoboticsReach 32

    Figure launches Project Go-Big to build massive humanoid dataset

    Figure just announced Project Go-Big to build the world's largest pretraining dataset for humanoid robots. Since robotic physical data can't simply be scraped from the web, Figure is tapping partner Brookfield's network of over 100,000 residential units to gather real-world demonstrations at scale.

  11. RoboticsReach 47

    Figure fast-tracks humanoid robots for the home

    Figure just moved up its home robotics roadmap by two years, with plans to begin alpha testing its Figure 02 humanoid in living rooms later in 2025. CEO Brett Adcock credited Helix, the startup’s new generalist VLA model, for the rapid shift. Why it matters: While rivals stick to factory floors, Figure is taking on the messy real world surprisingly early.

  12. RoboticsReach 48

    Figure's Helix gives humanoid robots a two-speed brain

    Figure just introduced Helix, a vision-language-action model that drives full upper-body control for humanoid robots. By decoupling slow scene comprehension from a 200Hz reactive action policy, it lets robots pick up unfamiliar household items and even coordinate across two units entirely on onboard, low-power GPUs.

  13. RoboticsReach 41

    Figure debuts Figure 02 humanoid with 3x compute and 16-DoF hands

    Figure just unveiled its next-generation humanoid robot, the Figure 02. The new machine packs a custom 2.25 kWh battery for over 20 hours of daily uptime, an integrated exoskeleton, six RGB cameras, and hands with 16 degrees of freedom. With three times the onboard CPU and GPU power of its predecessor, it is built to execute autonomous AI tasks directly on the factory floor.

  14. RoboticsReach 31

    Figure teases its next-gen humanoid robot Figure 02

    OpenAI-backed Figure just teased Figure 02, its next-generation humanoid robot set to debut on August 6, 2024. The teaser shows off sleek new joints, flexible mesh body designs, and torques reaching 150Nm. Founder Brett Adcock boldly claims it will be the most advanced humanoid robot on the planet.

  15. RoboticsReach 34

    ChatGPT gets a humanoid body with Figure 01

    Figure just integrated OpenAI's vision and speech models into its Figure 01 humanoid robot, enabling it to hold full conversations while executing physical tasks. The robot can process visual context, follow verbal commands, and even pauses naturally while speaking. Why it matters: Bringing ChatGPT into a physical frame turns generative AI into an embodied agent, accelerating the race toward real-world AGI.