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Meta picks up robotics AI outfit as it makes the push into humanoid machines
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Meta has purchased Assured Robot Intelligence (ARI), a startup company that's building artificial intelligence for robots to "address critical challenges" in "high-value labor markets.
Key facts
- Wang, his co-founders Xuxin Cheng and Lerrel Pinto, and the ARI team will be joining Meta's Superintelligence Labs
- Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth said back in 2025 that the company is aiming to create software that other companies can license, similar to what Google does with Android
- Meta has purchased Assured Robot Intelligence (ARI), a startup company that's building artificial intelligence for robots to "address critical challenges" in "high-value labor markets
- In a post on X, ARI co-founder Xiaolong Wang said that from the start, they knew achieving his company's goals meant "training a truly general-purpose physical agent
Summary
" The company is already working on robot hardware and AI in-house, but a spokesperson told Bloomberg that ARI "will bring a deep expertise in how can design models and frontier capabilities for robot control and self-learning to whole-body humanoid control. In a post on X, ARI co-founder Xiaolong Wang said that from the start, they knew achieving his company's goals meant "training a truly general-purpose physical agent. " Wang, his co-founders Xuxin Cheng and Lerrel Pinto, and the ARI team will be joining Meta's Superintelligence Labs. Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth said back in 2025 that the company is aiming to create software that other companies can license, similar to what Google does with Android.