Figure released Helix 2.5, a humanoid control model, and says it worked zero-shot in 30 rented homes across the Bay Area with no local training data collected first. The company posted the claim on X on September 17, alongside a six-minute video showing robots making beds, folding towels and tidying rooms none of them had entered before.
Helix 2.5 was pretrained on Figure’s own Index dataset ahead of the home tests, according to the entry summary that accompanied the post. By the time it was collected, the post had drawn 11,980 likes and 1,248 reposts on top of roughly 2.55 million views, the kind of reach that turns a company demo into an industry talking point regardless of outside verification.
The claims come only from Figure: no outside lab has confirmed task success rates, timing, or how many attempts each home required. Figure has staked its identity on proving autonomous humanoid labor works at commercial scale, and that is exactly the incentive a reader should weigh before treating one demo reel as a verified benchmark.
Figure (on X), September 17, 2026.
