The company also released a video showing two humanoid robots putting away groceries. It’s worth watching.

Figure AI Inc., a startup developing humanoid robots, is in talks with investors to raise $1.5 billion at a valuation of $39.5 billion, according to people familiar with the matter — a move that signals the tech industry’s intensifying interest in robots that look and move like humans.

Figure founder and CEO Brett Adcock Thursday revealed a new machine learning model for humanoid robots. The news, which arrives two weeks after Adcock

In a significant move in the AI world, California-based Figure has revealed Helix, a generalist Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model that unifies perception, language understanding, and learned control to overcome multiple longstanding challenges in robotics.