Figure AI Helix-02 runs eight-hour shifts

Figure AI said on May 13 that its humanoid robots can run full eight-hour factory shifts autonomously, extending a series of Helix-02 demonstrations from minutes-long household tasks to a full workday claim. The company pointed viewers to a live broadcast on its YouTube channel that said a team of robots would run a “full 8-hr shift at human performance levels” with “fully autonomous” control under Helix-02. Brett Adcock, Figure’s chief executive, made the pledge publicly as outside coverage began circulating on May 13. Interesting Engineering reported that Figure said its Helix-02 robots could sustain “full factory-style 8-hour shifts without intervention,” citing a company post on X that invited viewers to watch the test. (youtube.com) Figure’s own public materials show Helix-02 as the control system behind the claim. In a January 27 technical post, the company said Helix-02 extends control from the upper body to the full robot, including walking, manipulation and balance, through what it described as a single neural system operating directly from onboard sensor inputs. The same post said the system had completed a four-minute end-to-end dishwasher task with no resets and no human intervention. (interestingengineering.com) The company has spent the past year framing Helix as a generalist vision-language-action model for logistics and household work. In a June 7, 2025 post, Figure said Helix in logistics had improved package-handling speed to about 4.05 seconds per item and raised barcode-orientation success to roughly 95%, up from about 70%. Those figures came from package-sorting work, not an eight-hour shift claim, but they show the performance benchmarks Figure has previously published for warehouse-style tasks. (figure.ai) Figure’s recent product cadence also shows how quickly it has been broadening the scope of its demonstrations. The company’s news page lists Helix-02’s January launch, a living-room cleanup demo in March, a bedroom-tidying demo on May 8 and an April 29 production update for Figure 03, the hardware platform now featured across its public materials. The live broadcast itself was labeled “F.03 Livestream,” while its description said the robots were running “fully autonomous” on Helix-02. (figure.ai) The distinction matters because Figure is pairing two separate claims in the same event: Figure 03 as the humanoid hardware and Helix-02 as the autonomy stack. On its website, the company says Helix controls perception, movement and reasoning in real time, while its January post says Helix-02 replaced hand-engineered motion code with a learned whole-body controller trained on more than 1,000 hours of human motion data. (figure.ai) May 13’s livestream is the company’s public test of whether those technical claims hold up over a full shift. The archived YouTube page remains the main place Figure directed viewers to watch the eight-hour run, and the company’s recent news posts suggest more task-specific Helix-02 demonstrations are likely to follow if Figure continues its current release pace. (youtube.com) (figure.ai)