Model comparison · robotics
Helix 02 vs OpenVLA 7B
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Figure · activeHelix 02Verified Aug 28, 2026
OpenVLA Research Team · activeOpenVLA 7BVerified Aug 28, 2026
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| Field | Helix 02 | OpenVLA 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | Figure | OpenVLA Research Team |
| Family | Helix | OpenVLA |
| Model | Helix 02 | OpenVLA 7B |
| Version | 02 | 7B |
| Lifecycle | active | active |
| Input modalities | Text, Image, Robot state | Text, Image, Robot state |
| Output modalities | Robot action | Robot action |
| Context window | Unknown | Unknown |
| Total parameters | Unknown | 7000000000 |
| Active parameters | Unknown | Unknown |
| License | Unknown | Unknown |
| Open weights | No | Yes |
| API available | No | No |
| Self-hostable | No | Yes |
| Capabilities | dexterous-manipulation, long-horizon-control, tactile-control, whole-body-control | cross-embodiment, fine-tuning, generalist-manipulation |
| Robotics model type | Vision-language-action model | Vision-language-action model |
| Action representation | Full-body joint targets | Tokenized actions decoded to continuous robot controls |
| Control architecture | Semantic reasoning, visuomotor policy, and kHz whole-body controller | Fused SigLIP and DINOv2 visual encoder with Llama 2 7B backbone |
| Inference location | On device | Flexible |
| Native control rate (Hz) | Unknown | Unknown |
| Supported embodiments | Figure 03 | WidowX, Google Robot, Franka Panda |
| Training data | Figure reports more than 1,000 hours of human motion data plus sim-to-real reinforcement learning for its whole-body controller. | 970,000 robot manipulation trajectories from Open X-Embodiment described by the authors. |
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