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Figure Unveils Helix 02: Full-Body Neural Network Controls Humanoid Walking, Manipulation, and Balance
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Figure Unveils Helix 02: Full-Body Neural Network Controls Humanoid Walking, Manipulation, and Balance

Figure AI announced Helix 02, a single neural network that controls its humanoid robot's entire body directly from camera pixels. The system demonstrated a continuous 4-minute autonomous kitchen task — unloading a dishwasher, walking across the room, stacking items in cabinets, and reloading the dishwasher — with no human intervention. Helix 02 replaces over 109,000 lines of hand-engineered C++ with a unified visuomotor network trained on 1,000+ hours of human motion data.

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