Figure's Helix 2.5 achieves zero-shot whole-body autonomy across 30 unseen homes

FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-09-22

Figure has unveiled Helix 2.5, its most advanced neural network to date, built to answer one question: can a humanoid enter a home it has never seen and immediately get to work?

Key points:

Zero-shot across 30 real homes: The robot performed three long-horizon behaviors — tidying living rooms, folding towels, and making beds — in 30 Bay Area homes with zero data collection, fine-tuning, or adaptation. Figure claims this is the first demonstration of zero-shot whole-body generalization at this scope on a humanoid.
One foundation model, three behaviors: A single base model pretrained on Index, Figure's global-scale human behavior dataset, covers locomotion, rigid and deformable manipulation, bimanual coordination, and active perception.
Index pretraining drives generalization: With task data, architecture, and training held fixed, Index pretraining was the key differentiator.
Figure also released a 4-hour full test video showing real performance rather than cherry-picked successes.

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Figure's Helix 2.5 achieves zero-shot whole-body autonomy across 30 unseen homes

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