Helix Context

Market context

Helix is Figure's vision-language-action model stack for humanoid perception, manipulation and whole-body control.

  • Target environment: Figure humanoid deployments, logistics demonstrations and household manipulation demos.
  • Workflow context: Natural-language task execution, object manipulation, collaborative handoff and real-time robot control.
  • Customer context: Figure AI robot development teams and customers evaluating Figure humanoids for physical work.
  • Deployment model: Platform-integrated model layer running on Figure robots rather than a standalone third-party software product.
  • Commercial maturity: Public model layer with technical writeups and demos, tied to Figure's own humanoid platform.
  • Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on Figure robot availability, task reliability, safety validation and deployment access.
  • Market position: Robot foundation-model layer for humanoid manipulation and generalist physical task execution.
  • Adjacent products: GENE-26.5, sudo R1, FluxVLA Engine, Project GR00T

Audience

Developers

Workflow

Natural-language task execution, object manipulation, collaborative handoff and real-time robot control.

Deployment environment

Figure humanoid deployments, logistics demonstrations and household manipulation demos.

Specifications

  • Mobility Class: software_model
  • Platform Type: robot_foundation_model
  • Deployment Model: humanoid_intelligence
  • Platform Role: vla_control_layer
  • Model Type: generalist humanoid vision-language-action model
  • Control Scope: perception, reasoning and movement on board Figure robots
  • Architecture: S2 high-level latent planning model plus S1 low-level control model
  • System 2 Parameters: 7 B parameters
  • System 1 Parameters: 80 M parameters
  • Control Loop: 200 Hz
  • Controlled Action Space: 35 DoF
  • Deployment Compute: dual low-power embedded GPUs on Figure robots
  • Demonstrated Tasks: collaborative grocery storage, object picking, container placement, drawers and refrigerator operation

Tags

  • Peer Group: Robot foundation model

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