Overview
- Figure AI extended an eight-hour test into more than 24 hours of continuous autonomous package sorting, livestreaming three robots that viewers dubbed Bob, Frank, and Gary.
- The company says Helix-02 runs entirely on-board with no teleoperation, detects barcodes from camera pixels, and triggers an automatic reset if the policy gets stuck.
- During the run the robots reportedly processed over 28,000 packages and operated at speeds the CEO said were close to human workers for this task.
- Reporters watching earlier streams noted limits that still matter for real jobs, including slower moves than people at times and brief pauses before work resumed.
- Figure describes a fleet handover system for reliability, with each robot working about three to four hours per battery and then walking off for maintenance as another takes its place, building on prior trials at BMW and competing with Tesla, Agility, and Apptronik.