Figure deployed its humanoid robots into 30 Bay Area homes they had never seen, running their new Helix 2.5 model.
The humanoids autonomously made beds, folded towels, and picked up toys, completing 237 of 420 attempts (56%).
The same model without pretraining finished only 9% of household tasks.
The difference was Index, Figure’s library of human video, which more than 90,000 people add to every week by filming their everyday lives. In №003 I wrote about Waffle Video paying $25 an hour for footage of chores like washing dishes. Five weeks later, Figure is now using this sort of video to train their humanoid fleet.
As a parent of a 4-year-old, I completely understand why picking up toys was the hardest task to complete (40%).
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