Figure says humanoid robot worked across 30 homes it had never seen

Figure says its humanoid robot has completed household tasks across 30 homes it had never previously seen, without collecting training data or adapting its AI model inside them.

The company released Helix 2.5 on September 17, demonstrating its Figure 03 humanoid tidying rooms, folding towels and making beds in unfamiliar Bay Area homes.

Figure says whole-task zero-shot success increased from 9% to 56% after introducing its Index pretraining system.

The demonstrations show the robot moving around unfamiliar rooms, locating and manipulating objects, coordinating both arms and repositioning itself when necessary to complete tasks.

In some examples, the robot also recovers after making mistakes rather than simply stopping.

No training inside the homes

The significance of Figure’s test is not that a humanoid robot can fold a towel or make a bed.

It is that the company says Figure 03 could enter a home it had not encountered during training and immediately attempt those tasks.

Figure says no training data was collected and no model adaptation took place inside any of the 30 test homes.

There is an important qualification to the company’s zero-shot claim.

The homes and objects were unfamiliar, but the tasks themselves were not. Figure had previously trained the robot to tidy rooms, fold towels and make beds using task-specific data collected elsewhere.

The test was therefore designed to measure whether skills learned in one set of environments could transfer to new ones without additional training.

That is a major challenge for general-purpose household robotics, where layouts, furniture and everyday objects vary enormously between homes.

56% success

The results remain company-reported and have not been independently tested.

A 56% whole-task success rate also leaves Figure 03 well short of the reliability expected from a commercial household appliance.

But the company says its previous system achieved only 9% success under the same zero-shot evaluation.

Figure’s latest demonstrations therefore show both the progress and the remaining limitation.

The robot still fails frequently.

But Figure says it can now walk into a house it has never seen before and have a better-than-even chance of completing the household task it has been given.

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