Robots/Parts/Training
First-person human video
Video filmed from a person's own point of view, as if through their eyes, while they go about everyday tasks. Figure uses it to teach its Helix AI how tasks are done, without needing a robot to be shown each one.
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Key numbers
- Figure Helix
- taught to move about homes using only first-person human video, with no robot demonstrations
- Recorded in
- real homes owned by Brookfield, recorded as people went about their day
- Brookfield's homes
- more than 100,000 residential units
Source: Figure, Project Go-Big: Internet-Scale Humanoid Pretraining and Direct Human-to-Robot Transfer (figure.ai)
Strengths and trade-offs
Our analysisStrengths
Far cheaper and quicker to collect than recordings made with a robot.
Covers a huge variety of homes, objects and tasks.
Shows tasks from the same point of view as a robot's head cameras.
Can grow to internet scale.
Trade-offs
Human hands and bodies differ from a robot's, so the lessons do not carry over perfectly.
Video shows what happened but not how hard things were gripped or pushed.
Filming inside people's homes raises privacy questions.
Usually still needs some robot data to fine-tune each task.
Why robot makers choose it
Our readRobot demonstrations cost an hour of a person's time for every hour of data. People filming their own daily lives produce far more examples, far more cheaply, which is why Figure is betting on it to teach Helix at large scale.
This is our reasoning from the public facts. No maker has confirmed it.
Robots using it
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