Figure's Helix 2.5 runs zero-shot whole-body tasks across 30 unseen homes
adcock_brett · x · 2026-09-18
Figure unveils Helix 2.5, its most advanced neural network yet, built to answer a harder question: can a humanoid enter an unseen home and immediately start working with its whole body, autonomously?
Key points:
- Zero-shot whole-body autonomy across 30 real Bay Area homes, with no data collection, fine-tuning, or adaptation in those environments or on the objects handled — claimed as the first demonstration of zero-shot whole-body generalization at this scope on a humanoid.
- A single Index-pretrained base model drives three long-horizon behaviors: tidying living rooms, folding towels, and making beds, spanning locomotion, rigid and deformable manipulation, bimanual coordination, and active perception.
- Index, Figure's global-scale dataset of human behavior, is the key driver of generalization, per ablations holding everything else fixed.
- A companion video shows 4 hours of zero-shot work across 30 rental homes.
Unlike Helix 02, which learned from data collected where robots would operate, Helix 2.5 marks a step toward cross-environment generalization.
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