Introducing Helix 02: Full-Body Autonomy

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Introduces Helix 02, a unified whole-body loco-manipulation VLA that extends control to the entire robot. Key contributions include: 1. System 0, a learned whole-body controller trained on 1000+ hours of human motion data and sim-to-real RL, replacing 109,504 lines of hand-engineered C++ with a single neural prior for stable motion. 2. System 1's expansion to connect all sensors (head cameras, palm cameras, fingertip tactile sensors, proprioception) to all actuators (full-body joint control), enabling dexterous manipulation with new hardware modalities. 3. Demonstration of long-horizon autonomous tasks (e.g., 4-minute dishwasher loading/unloading) and new classes of dexterity (e.g., pill extraction, syringe dispensing) enabled by the integrated system.