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Meta picks up robotics company to bolster its humanoid AI ambitions
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Meta has acquired humanoid robotics startup Assured Robot Intelligence (ARI) for an undisclosed sum, the social media giant said.
Key facts
- ARI’s team, including its co-founders, will join Meta’s AI unit, the Superintelligence Labs research division
- Meta has acquired humanoid robotics startup Assured Robot Intelligence (ARI) for an undisclosed sum, the social media giant said
- Co-founder Xiaolong Wang was previously a researcher at Nvidia, and an associate professor at UC San Diego, with a list of prestigious awards to his name
- The team acquired Assured Robot Intelligence, a company at the frontier of robotic intelligence designed to enable robots to understand, predict, and adapt to human behaviors in complex and dynamic
Summary
“We acquired Assured Robot Intelligence, a company at the frontier of robotic intelligence designed to enable robots to understand, predict, and adapt to human behaviors in complex and dynamic environments,” a Meta spokesperson told TechCrunch in an emailed statement. ARI’s team, including its co-founders, will join Meta’s AI unit, the Superintelligence Labs research division. The startup was building foundation models for humanoid robots to perform all types of physical labor such as household chores. Even if Meta never releases a consumer humanoid product, many AI experts these days believe that the path to artificial general intelligence (AGI), the theoretical point at which AI reaches or surpasses human-level intelligence across all domains, will require training AI models in the physical world, where robots learn through direct interaction rather than data alone.