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Figure paid 44,000 people $15 million to film themselves doing chores. That footage just taught a robot to make beds in 30 houses it had never entered. The dataset is called Index. People in 108 countries upload first-person video of everyday tasks, 30 minutes of footage arriving every second, and Figure pays them for it. Helix 2.5 was pretrained on all of it before it ever touched a task. The controlled experiment is the whole story. Figure trained two identical policies on the same task…