Weekly AI Recap: Helix 2.5 Lifts Household Robot Success to 56%, World Models Meet Robot Control
TheTuringPost · x · 2026-09-22
TheTuringPost's weekly roundup focuses on AI's growing ability to understand and act in the real world:
- Odyssey-3: connects world models to robot control, with demos of recovery from dropped objects and missed grasps.
- Omni World Model: a planned model to understand scenes, generate them, and act.
- Helix 2.5: Figure's household robot stack, tested in 30 unfamiliar homes; human-behavior pretraining lifted success from 9% to 56% — the week's most concrete capability jump.
- Agility's Digit 5: enhanced onboard safety systems so robots can work around people without fencing.
- Jev: answers constrained questions with probabilities in 70–500ms, enabling faster agent checks and decisions.
- DeepMind Institute opens discussion: if AGI is getting closer, what should we do with it, and who gets a say?
A companion video expands on each item with details.
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