Scaling Helix: a New State of the Art in Humanoid Logistics

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This post details significant advancements in Helix's logistics capabilities, focusing on scaling its performance through data and architectural improvements. Key contributions include the integration of a temporal vision memory module for stateful perception and context awareness, the incorporation of force feedback for more precise manipulation and touch sensing, and the augmentation of the policy with a history of recent states for faster, more reactive control. These enhancements have led to handling a wider variety of package types (deformable bags, flat envelopes), increased throughput to 4.05 seconds per package, and improved barcode scanning success to ~95%. The post also quantifies the impact of scaling demonstration training data from 10 to 60 hours, showing steady performance gains.