In a new video from US startup Figure AI, two humanoid machines enter a simply furnished bedroom – and clean up.
Anyone who fails to make their bed in the morning could soon hand this task over to a robot: In a new video from the US startup Figure AI, two humanoid machines enter a simply furnished bedroom – and tidy up as if it were part of their morning routine.
While one hangs up a coat and closes a laptop, the other straightens the blanket and adjusts the pillows. The two coordinate almost silently by nodding their heads and make the bed in less than two minutes.
In a blog post, Figure described this milestone as “an important first demonstration of a future we hope will become commonplace: intelligent humanoids coordinating with each other to achieve common goals in human environments.”
Making a bed may be a simple task for humans, but it is extremely difficult for robots. According to Figure AI, three challenges make this task particularly difficult.
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Humanoids for the household
First, two humanoids in a room are not simply two robots working in parallel: every action that one robot performs must be understood by the other. Secondly, the bed cover does not have a fixed shape and there is no clear separation between the side of one robot and that of the other. Each robot must anticipate what the other will do and constantly adapt as the fabric folds, drapes and shifts under their grasp. Third, the robots must move in space and switch between tasks.
“To be clear: There is no explicit communication between these robots, they coordinate their actions entirely visually, such as by nodding their heads,” Corey Lynch, AI director at Figure AI, wrote on
Figure AI said it trained Helix 02, the model it unveiled earlier this year, with new data so the robots can handle more complex tasks, including opening doors, moving furniture and draping clothes. It has not been announced when the humanoid will be available to consumers.
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Figure AI has raised more than $1 billion and is valued at $39 billion. The company competes with Tesla, which is developing its own humanoid robot, Optimus.
Figure-AI CEO believes in self-learning robot species
In 2025, Brett Adcock, CEO of Figure AI, announced that the company was no longer working with OpenAI, an investor in Figure AI, to develop AI models for robots. Adcock ended the partnership after less than a year after OpenAI told him it planned to continue developing humanoids internally.
Adcock wants to develop a “new species” of robots that can reproduce and exchange knowledge with each other. “I think it will happen in our lifetime,” he said.
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Other startups also train robots to do household chores. AI training startups like Encord and Micro1 are reporting a surge in demand from robotics companies looking for high-quality training data. This requires people to film themselves doing tasks like folding laundry or loading dishwashers.
