Figure’s $1 Billion Bet Pays Off: Helix 2.5 Humanoid Robot Nails 56% of Chores in 30 Unseen Homes — a 6X Jump
Figure AI’s latest neural network, Helix 2.5, completed 237 household tasks across 30 Bay Area homes its robots had never entered, hitting a 56% success rate — a 6X jump over the 9% baseline of a model trained from scratch. Bed making hit 67%, towel folding 62%, and toy tidying lagged at 40%. CEO Brett Adcock calls zero-shot generalization the industry’s holy grail, powered by the new Index data platform. Qualcomm’s same-week acquisition of PickNik signals the physical AI arms race is heating up.
