# Helix (and Helix-02), brain

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.

- **Slug:** helix
- **Type:** Foundation model
- **Maturity (DEPLOY ladder):** Commercial
- **Open source:** no

## 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)

- [Figure AI](/companies/figure-ai.md)


## Powers (2)

- [Figure 02](/models/figure-02.md) (Figure AI)
- [Figure 03](/models/figure-03.md) (Figure AI)


## 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/


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