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Figure's Helix 2.5 did chores in 30 homes it had never seen, and finished about half

A model pretrained on human video let Figure 03 tidy, fold towels and make beds in unfamiliar homes at 56% full-task success, up from 9%.

19 Sep 2026 · 4 min
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Skild's S1 learns a new task from one video of a person doing it

Skild AI says its S1 model picks up unseen tasks like repotting a plant from a single first-person video, with no retraining.

12 Sep 2026 · 3 min
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Gemini Robotics 2 drives a whole humanoid, and DeepMind published the scorecard

Google DeepMind's new robot models let Apptronik's Apollo 2 walk, crouch and grasp, with floor pickups succeeding 45.7% of the time.

6 Sep 2026 · 3 min