Dirty Laundry Humanoid robots remain far-fetched — but certain demos are starting to suggest a plausible future in which they could actually become common fixtures in regular households. In an impressive new demo, humanoid robot company Figure founder Brett Adcock showed off the company’s F.02 robot effortlessly loading dirty laundry from a basket into a washing machine. Adcock can be seen adding items of clothing to the basket as the robot is loading the machine, demonstrating it wasn’t part of a pre-scripted demo. “This is not teleoperated,” he explained on X-formerly-Twitter. “We’re running Helix, our in-house neural network.” “First time seeing a humanoid robot actually doing a task in a home,” another user commented. “Makes me realise how close we are to this becoming a reality.” Here’s a F.02 in my home, using Helix to do my laundry pic.twitter.com/MXFf1o81EG — Brett Adcock (@adcock_brett) July 30, 2025 Laundry Robot Uprising Adcock was talking about Figure’s “generalist Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model,” called Helix, which allows its humanoid robots to make decisions on the fly based on perception and language inputs. We’ve already seen the F.02 robot expertly sorting packages at a logistics warehouse, dealing with packages of various sizes, shapes, and hardnesses and manipulating…
