Model comparison · robotics
Helix 02 vs SmolVLA 450M
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Figure · activeHelix 02Verified Aug 28, 2026
Hugging Face LeRobot · activeSmolVLA 450MVerified Aug 28, 2026
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| Field | Helix 02 | SmolVLA 450M |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | Figure | Hugging Face LeRobot |
| Family | Helix | SmolVLA |
| Model | Helix 02 | SmolVLA 450M |
| Version | 02 | 450M |
| 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 | 450000000 |
| Active parameters | Unknown | Unknown |
| License | Unknown | apache-2.0 |
| Open weights | No | Yes |
| API available | No | No |
| Self-hostable | No | Yes |
| Capabilities | dexterous-manipulation, long-horizon-control, tactile-control, whole-body-control | asynchronous-inference, fine-tuning, low-cost-hardware, manipulation |
| Robotics model type | Vision-language-action model | Vision-language-action model |
| Action representation | Full-body joint targets | Continuous action chunks from a flow-matching action expert |
| Control architecture | Semantic reasoning, visuomotor policy, and kHz whole-body controller | SmolVLM2 backbone with flow-matching action expert |
| Inference location | On device | On device |
| Native control rate (Hz) | Unknown | Unknown |
| Supported embodiments | Figure 03 | SO-100, SO-101, LeKiwi, LIBERO Franka |
| Training data | Figure reports more than 1,000 hours of human motion data plus sim-to-real reinforcement learning for its whole-body controller. | Compatibly licensed LeRobot community datasets totaling fewer than 30,000 episodes in the cited release. |
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