Figure founder and CEO Brett Adcock Thursday revealed a new machine learning model for humanoid robots. The news, which arrives two weeks after Adcock

Figure launches Helix, an AI that allows robots to recognize language and reasoning like humans and grasp household objects without training.

Fresh off its split from OpenAI, Figure AI's new model lets humanoid robots grab anything, work together, and respond to spoken commands.

Figure AI has announced Helix, a Vision-Language-Action (VLM) model that allows humanoid robots to perform complex tasks using natural language. This model marks progress in robotics, enabling robots to understand and react to instructions in real time, handle unforeseen objects, and collaborate.

Figure AI Inc., a startup developing humanoid robots, is in talks with investors to raise $1.5 billion at a valuation of $39.5 billion, according to people familiar with the matter — a move that signals the tech industry’s intensifying interest in robots that look and move like humans.

Figure, a Silicon Valley-based startup that builds humanoid robots, has announced Helix, a proprietary AI model that the company says enables robots to more easily pick up objects, collaborate on tasks with other robots,