Figure

Figure is a San Jose robotics company founded in 2022 by Brett Adcock that builds general purpose humanoid robots. This launch introduces Helix 2.5, the latest version of the company's onboard AI, running on the Figure 03 hardware platform. The pitch to founders, investors, and operators watching the humanoid space is simple. Instead of demoing a robot in a lab it has been tuned for, Figure rented 30 homes across the Bay Area, shipped the robot in, and ran three long tasks (tidying a living room, making a bed, and folding towels) with no new data collection or fine tuning in any of those environments. Helix 2.5 performs three long-horizon behaviors across 30 unseen homes, with no data collection, fine-tuning, or adaptation in those environments or manipulated objects. A single neural network handles perception, locomotion, and manipulation of both rigid and deformable objects in real time, which is why laundry and bed making sit alongside room tidying in the demo set. Figure frames this as zero-shot whole-body generalization, a milestone the team argues has not been shown before on a humanoid. The underlying bet is on data scale. A year ago, Figure launched Index, a global human data collection effort now drawing contributions from over 90,000 people each week, and the company says an ablation without Index data failed to generalize at all. Adcock is pairing that pipeline with a $3.5 billion compute commitment for Helix, positioning this release as the point where Figure begins arguing that humanoid learning can follow LLM-style scaling curves. For anyone tracking whether home humanoids are a real market or a demo reel, this launch is the concrete data point to weigh.