Figure says its humanoid robot can now carry household skills into homes it has never seen before — but it still gets the job done only a little more than half the time.
The company introduced Helix 2.5 last Thursday and said the Figure 03 robot completed household tasks across 30 previously unseen Bay Area homes without retraining or collecting additional data from those locations.
Across 420 trials involving bed making, towel folding, and toy tidying, Figure reported 237 successful completions, or 56%. The result shows progress in generalization, but it also highlights the reliability gap that remains before household robots can be trusted…
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