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Humanoid robot does chores in 30 unseen homes

Figure reported its Figure 03 robot, running Helix 2.5, tidied living rooms, folded towels and made beds in 30 Bay Area homes it had never seen before.

WHERE THIS STANDS
  1. Claim
  2. Verified
  3. Usable
  4. In use

Only Figure has reported these results, and the robot is not sold for homes.

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WHY THIS MATTERS

It is a step toward a home robot that can handle chores in your house without being trained there first.

Our interpretation of possible significance, not a promised outcome.

What happened?

Figure reported its Figure 03 robot, running Helix 2.5, tidied living rooms, folded towels and made beds in 30 Bay Area homes it had never seen before.

What changed?

Figure reported full task success rose from 9% for a policy trained from scratch to 56% after pretraining on its new Index dataset, using the same task data.

What has been checked?

Company announcement

The robot still failed almost half the time, and all results come from Figure itself with no outside review.

Can I use it today?

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Source materials checked Oct 7, 2026. Leapscope has not independently replicated this result.

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