With artificial intelligence (AI) seeping into every pore of our everyday lives, many have complained that it’s invaded our creativity domain instead of relieving us of the mundane and demanding tasks, but the Helix AI robot seems to be a step in the right direction.
Indeed, Figure has developed Helix AI, its proprietary humanoid robot, giving us a chance to focus our attention and energy on work and hobbies instead of chores. This development takes place following the AI robotics company’s strategic shift away from OpenAI, according to a report on March 4.
As it happens, Figure’s robot takes a massive leap forward from traditional robots that rely on extensive pre-programming, instead demonstrating an unprecedented level of adaptive intelligence, allowing it to seamlessly interact and respond to its environment.
Helix AI specifications
Specifically, the generalist model integrates three core functionalities setting it apart from existing robotic models: vision, language, and action (VLA). This allows Helix AI to use perception, language understanding, and learned control to overcome long-standing challenges in robotics and carry out a wide array of household tasks without complex coding or repeated demonstrations.
Among its main characteristics is Helix AI’s ability to adapt to various home environments, all with their unique obstacles like clutter and lack of lighting, as opposed to industrial robots that can only operate in structured surroundings.
This is possible through a two-layer intelligence system that includes the S2 system – an internet-pre-trained vision-language model (VLM) to analyze and understand the environment, and the S1 fast reactive visuomotor policy – a real-time action model that executes precise movements to ensure seamless and efficient task completion.
In terms of humanoid robotics, Helix AI introduces full upper body control across 35 degrees that allows it to perform complex movements like stacking items and handling delicate objects. It can verbally communicate with other AI units in shared tasks, and it functions on embedded GPUs, which reduces latency and increases responsiveness without an internet connection.
During a live presentation, Helix successfully understood the voice commands from the human, scanned the objects in the kitchen, put away groceries, and even worked with other robots to complete the tasks – all with a high level of autonomy, care, and very minimal human intervention.
Meanwhile, scientists have found a way to make AI ‘alive,’ i.e. run on real human cells for the first time in history, while AI is taking over driving, passenger commute, taxi services, road safety, human resources, sports training, and even some areas of medicine.
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