Figure's Helix 2.5 did chores in 30 homes it had never seen
Figure rented 30 homes in the Bay Area that were deliberately excluded from its training data and ran its new Helix 2.5 model in them zero-shot, with no data collection, fine-tuning or adaptation in those environments. The company says the model halves the task-specific data needed to specify a behavior while expanding the scope of where that behavior works from a single environment to 30 unseen ones. Founder and chief executive Brett Adcock posted four hours of the footage on September 17, 2026, showing the robot working across unfamiliar rooms, layouts and objects.
