New Models
Helix
Figure announces Helix, an on-robot VLA model enabling robot-to-robot handoffs
Humanoid robot company Figure announced Helix, a Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model with full upper-body control that runs entirely on the robot, pairing a 7 billion parameter VLM for understanding with an 80 million parameter transformer for control. The demo showed two robots collaborating and handing objects to each other from natural language commands, a first that Alex called 'super futuristically cool'.