Helix 2.5

A humanoid robot model Figure AI released in September 2026 that does household chores zero-shot in 30 unfamiliar homes.

Helix 2.5 is a robot model released on September 17, 2026 by the US humanoid robot company Figure AI, running on the Figure 03 humanoid, and the successor to Helix and Helix 02. Unlike its predecessors, which started from a vision-language model, the company says Helix 2.5 is pretrained entirely on Index, Figure's self-built, global-scale dataset of human behavior, which it says gains about 35 minutes of new human experience every second. The release's headline result is zero-shot generalization: across 30 San Francisco Bay Area homes the robot had never visited, with no data collection or fine-tuning and a single fixed set of model weights per task, it performed three household chores that require moving and manipulating at the same time — tidying a living room, folding towels, and making a bed. In the company's own comparison, a policy trained from random initialization reached 9% success, while Helix 2.5 starting from Index pretraining reached 56%; and matching Helix 02's success rate required only half as much task-specific data.

ExampleFigure 03 walks into an unfamiliar home and, using the same model weights, puts scattered items in the living room back in place, folds towels, and makes the bed — with no data ever collected in that home beforehand.

Also called

Figure Helix 2.5

Related

Figure AI · Figure Helix · Figure Helix 02 · Figure 03 · Human Video Data · Zero-shot

Sources

Helix 2.5: Zero-Shot 30-Home Generalization (Figure AI, 2026-09-17)
Figure AI 新闻列表 (Chinese)

As of

2026-09