Helix (Figure, v1)
'first' flags are Figure's own claims at announcement (2025-02-20). Superseded by Helix 02 (2026-01) and Helix 2.5 (2026-09). Never publicly available.
- Input
- text, image
- Output
- action
- License
- proprietary
How to call it
| Provider | Model id | Endpoint / URL | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|
| None (runs only on Figure robots; no public API or weights) | — | www.figure.ai/news/helix | — |
Notable capabilities (4)
- FIRST Full upper-body humanoid control from a VLA: Continuous high-rate control of the whole humanoid upper body (wrists, torso, head, individual fingers) over a 35-DoF action space. source
- Dual-system architecture (S2 + S1): System 2: 7B VLM at 7-9 Hz for scene/language understanding; System 1: 80M-parameter visuomotor transformer at 200 Hz. source
- FIRST Multi-robot collaboration with one set of weights: Same model ran simultaneously on two robots collaborating on a shared grocery-storage task. source
- FIRST Fully onboard on embedded low-power GPUs: Runs entirely on the robot's embedded GPUs - Figure calls it the first VLA ready for commercial deployment this way. source
Sources: Figure: Helix.