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The Helix-02 is a humanoid robot designed for collaborative tasks in shared environments. It can perform complex actions like making a bed and putting away groceries using a single learned Vision-Language-Action system.
A tearable cloth simulation using verlet integration. This project demonstrates how to simulate the behavior of cloth that can be torn apart.
Figure's May 8, 2026 demonstration shows two Helix-02 humanoid robots running a single Vision-Language-Action policy to coordinate bedroom cleanup. They open doors, manipulate deformables, and make a bed together without central planners or message passing—inferring intent from motion alone.
Launched February 25, 2026, Hermes Agent is now #1 on OpenRouter's token rankings across all categories—personal, CLI, and beyond. With 140K GitHub stars, MIT license, 40+ tools, persistent memory, and a skills system that learns from experience, open-source is proving dominant in the agent stack.
Seedance 2.0 on Runway compresses weeks of character animation into hours with image-to-video, style transfer, and director-level camera control. We unpack the workflow mechanics, what counts as 'real animation' in the AI era, and how solo creators are shipping work that once required full teams.
