Figure releases Helix 2.5, boosting robot task success rate to 56%

A humanoid robot that can walk into a stranger’s house and make the bed without being trained on that specific house sounds like science fiction. Figure AI would like to suggest otherwise. On September 17, 2026, Figure unveiled Helix 2.5, a new AI control model for its humanoid robots that achieved a 56% success rate across three household tasks performed in 30 previously unseen Bay Area homes. That number comes from 237 successful completions out of 420 total attempts, and it lands against a baseline of 9% for a comparable model trained from scratch on the same tasks. What Helix 2.5 actually did The model was tested on three full-body chores: making beds, folding towels, and tidying living rooms. Each task requires the robot to reason about objects it has never encountered before, in spatial configurations it has never seen. Bed making led the performance numbers, with Figure’s robot succeeding in 94 of 140 attempts, a 67% success rate. Towel folding came in second at 62%, clearing 87 of 140 trials. Tidying toys was the hardest, landing at 40% with 56 successful runs out of 140. The hardware running all of this is Figure’s 03 platform, the company’s current generation of humanoid ...