News Summary

Figure, a Bay Area robotics company founded by Brett Adcock, has unveiled Helix, a new Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model designed to enable humanoid robots to perform complex tasks in home environments using visual and language commands. Helix allows for real-time control of robots by processing natural language prompts and visually assessing the environment to carry out tasks. This development aims to address the challenges of diverse and unstructured home settings by enabling robots to generate on-demand intelligent behaviors, even for objects they have not encountered before. While currently in early stages, Figure’s focus on optimizing robots for home use marks a shift from its previous emphasis on industrial applications, intending to make robots more adaptable to household tasks.