{"id":207012,"date":"2025-02-22T22:07:38","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T04:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/figures-humanoids-start-doing-tasks-they-werent-trained-for"},"modified":"2025-02-22T22:07:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T04:07:38","slug":"figures-humanoids-start-doing-tasks-they-werent-trained-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/figures-humanoids-start-doing-tasks-they-werent-trained-for","title":{"rendered":"Figure\u2019s humanoids start doing tasks they weren\u2019t trained for"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/figures-humanoids-start-doing-tasks-they-werent-trained-for.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Only weeks after <a href=\"http:\/\/Figure.ai\">Figure.ai<\/a> announced ending its collaboration deal with OpenAI, the Silicon Valley startup has announced Helix \u2013 a commercial-ready, AI \u201chive-mind\u201d humanoid robot that can do almost anything you tell it to.<\/p>\n<p>Figure has made headlines in the past with its <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/robotics\/figure-humanoid-learning-tasks-autonomously\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">Figure 01<\/a> humanoid robot. The company is now on version 2 of its premiere robot, however, it\u2019s received more than just a few design changes: it\u2019s been given an entirely new AI brain called Helix VLA.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not just any ordinary AI either. Helix is the very first of its kind to be put into a humanoid robot. It\u2019s a generalist Vision-Language-Action model. The keyword being \u201cgeneralist.\u201d It can see the world around it, understand natural language, interact with the real world, and it can <i>learn<\/i> anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only weeks after Figure.ai announced ending its collaboration deal with OpenAI, the Silicon Valley startup has announced Helix \u2013 a commercial-ready, AI \u201chive-mind\u201d humanoid robot that can do almost anything you tell it to. Figure has made headlines in the past with its Figure 01 humanoid robot. The company is now on version 2 of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}