Robots can now walk blind with Figure AI's Helix Walking Controller. Instead of using cameras, the controller relies on the robot's internal sensors and reinforcement learning to maintain balance while walking. The controller, unveiled last year, allows the robot to stay balanced, recover from pushes, and move confidently across... difficult terrain.show more

It looks like Joe Biden trying to walk but without the falling. 🙃

5 years late to the club.

Thinking to myself, "area looks familiar" then took initiative, looked up "Figure AI's" location. Just as thought, [Silicon Valley] San Jose on N. 1st Street. Worked down there once upon a time. BONUS FEATURE : Figure's First Full HQ Tour From the Lab to Factory Floor

心根の優しいロボットさん💛

I always assumed this was the point. Cameras are for understanding the environment. Walking itself should rely on internal sensors, balance, force feedback and proprioception. Humans don’t look at their legs to walk either.

Chinese robot performs 10 times better

Relying strictly on proprioception instead of vision proves that stable locomotion can be treated as a pure physical prior. Deleting thousands of lines of hand-coded engineering for a reinforcement learning model allows the hardware to adapt to uneven terrain purely by feel.

こういう人…いるよね😊

Joe Biden　みたい🤣

Figure AI's Helix lets robots walk blind using internal sensors & RL for balance on tough terrain—no cameras needed! Impressive autonomy

What if it walks into the Freeway?

Make it backflip.

keep balance is hard

ok

I can't even walk blind on the terrain that this robot is walking blind on! This is when the impossible is possible!