Figure founder and CEO Brett Adcock Thursday revealed a new machine learning model for humanoid robots. The news, which arrives two weeks after Adcock announced the Bay Area robotics firm’s decision to step away from an OpenAI collaboration, is centered around Helix, a “generalist” Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model. VLAs are a new phenomenon for robotics, leveraging […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Figure has unveiled its new Helix Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model, enabling its humanoid robot to perform tasks through voice commands and visual data. Helix, designed for generalist use, allows robots to handle thousands of household items unseen during training, even working in pairs. The company has shifted from collaborating with OpenAI to developing its own models. While still in early stages, the announcement aims to attract engineers to further develop the technology.
