DEPLOYregistry

Brain

Helix (and Helix-02)

Figure AI's onboard dual-system VLA. System 2 is an internet-pretrained VLM (7B params, 7-9 Hz) handling scene and language understanding; System 1 is a fast reactive visuomotor policy (80M params, 200 Hz). Helix-02 (January 27, 2026) extended to full-body control via System 0, a 1 kHz neural prior trained on 1,000+ hours of human motion data that replaced roughly 109,504 lines of hand-engineered C++. The first VLA to control a full humanoid upper body including individual fingers from one set of weights, and the first to run two robots from one set of weights.

Foundation model · Maturity: Commercial · Closed · Powers 2 robots

Machine-readable surfaces

Architecture

Dual-system VLA. System 2 (S2): onboard internet-pretrained VLM, 7B params, 7-9 Hz. System 1 (S1): fast reactive visuomotor policy, 80M params, 200 Hz. Helix-02 added System 0, a 1 kHz neural prior trained on 1,000+ hours of human motion data, replacing roughly 109,504 lines of hand-engineered C++. Runs on embedded low-power onboard GPUs, no cloud.

Key facts

Verified commercial milestone
May 13, 2026: Figure CEO demonstrated a team of Figure 03 robots running a full 8-hour autonomous shift on Helix-02, package sorting, no human intervention
Training data
Learned from approximately 500 hours of demonstration data
Onboard runtime
Embedded low-power onboard GPUs, no cloud
DEPLOY maturity rationale
Verified 8-hour autonomous shift in commercial sortation; counted as commercial not production

Developed by (1)

Powers (2)

Sources (4)

  1. Figure AI: Helix (primary) · https://www.figure.ai/news/helix
  2. Figure AI: Helix in logistics · https://www.figure.ai/news/helix-logistics
  3. TechTimes: Helix-02 8-hour autonomous shift (May 14, 2026) · https://www.techtimes.com/
  4. Luigi Freda: Helix architecture overview · https://luigifreda.com/

Canonical ID 9fc8ad4b-3d2f-4a3e-a0fe-f7ea7e138eb2