Robot Startup Figure Reveals an AI Breakthrough Called Helix

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I want one of these AI-powered humanoid robots to help me around the house

I'm a longtime ChatGPT user, and I can't imagine using the internet without access to some sort of AI to help me out. AI acting as an assistant is what I need from ChatGPT and other programs, and I can't wait for AI agents to get better and easier to use.  But I've also started considering the more distant future, one where I would need the AI to have an actual body. As I grow older, I will want a humanoid robot around the house to help me with …

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Robot Startup Figure Reveals an AI Breakthrough Called Helix

The company also released a video showing two humanoid robots putting away groceries. It’s worth watching.

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Figure Unveils Helix, a Breakthrough AI Brain for Humanoid Robots

Figure, a California-based robotics company, has introduced Helix, a Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model designed to enhance humanoid robots' perception, language understanding, and control. Founder Brett Adcock described Helix as the most significant AI advancement in the company’s history. "Helix thinks like a human… and to bring robots into homes, we need a step change in capabilities. Helix can generalise to virtually any household item," Adc…

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Figure-CEO Brett Adcock has presented a new machine learning model for humanoid robots. The platform Helix is intended to solve many of the problems that have been in the way of the use of robots in the household in the long term. read more on t3n.de

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Figure's Helix is a New Vision-Language-Action (VLA) Model That Helps Humanoid Robots Pick Up Nearly Any Object

Figure’s Helix is a new Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model that can help the company’s robots pick up nearly any small household object, including various items they have never encountered before, simply by following natural language prompts. This model basically unifies perception, language understanding, and learned control to overcome multiple longstanding challenges in robotics. Helix is claimed [...]

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The Helix robot demonstrate a new level of dexterity in handling everyday objects

In the not-too-distant future, you might simply say to your robot, “Put the milk in the fridge,” and watch as it does exactly that—no coding, no complicated setup. No muss, no fuss. That vision is inching closer to reality thanks to Figure AI’s new Helix system, billed as “a generalist Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model that unifies… The post Say goodbye to chores? The Helix robot demonstrate a new level of dexterity in handling everyday objects…