{"id":725067,"date":"2026-05-02T01:25:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T22:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/meta-buys-robotic-startup-to-bolster-its-humanoid-ai-ambitions\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T01:25:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T22:25:27","slug":"meta-buys-robotic-startup-to-bolster-its-humanoid-ai-ambitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/meta-buys-robotic-startup-to-bolster-its-humanoid-ai-ambitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta buys robotic startup to bolster its humanoid AI ambitions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Meta has acquired humanoid robotics startup Assured Robot Intelligence<\/a> for an undisclosed sum, the social media<\/a> giant said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe 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,\u201d a Meta spokesperson told TechCrunch in an emailed statement.<\/p>\n

ARI\u2019s team, including its co-founders, will join Meta\u2019s AI unit, the Superintelligence Labs research division. ARI had raised an undisclosed seed round from AI seed firm Aix Ventures.<\/p>\n

The startup was building foundation models for humanoid robots to perform all types of physical labor such as household chores. Co-founder Xiaolong Wang was previously a researcher at Nvidia, and an associate professor at UC San Diego, with a list of prestigious awards<\/a> to his name. Co-founder Lerrel Pinto, who previously taught at NYU and co-founded the kid-size humanoid startup Fauna Robotics before Amazon snapp<\/a>ed it up last month, has also won a string of prestigious awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n

ARI will help Meta with its humanoid ambitions. \u201cThis team, led by Lerrel Pinto and Xiaolong Wang, will bring a deep expertise in how we can design our models and frontier capabilities for robot control and self-learning to whole-body humanoid control.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meta researchers have been working on humanoid robotics <\/a>tech for years. A leaked memo from a year ago discussed Meta\u2019s ambitions to build such a robot, including AI models and hardware, aimed at consumers. <\/p>\n

Even if Meta never releases a consumer humanoid product, many AI experts these days believe that the path to artificial general<\/a> intelligence (AGI) \u2014 the theoretical point at which AI reaches or surpasses human-level intelligence across all domains \u2014 will require training AI models in the physical world, where robots learn through direct interaction rather than data alone.<\/p>\n

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The ARI and Fauna deals reflect a broader industry sprint \u2014 one where forecasts vary wildly, from Goldman Sachs\u2019s projection of $38 billion<\/a> by 2035 to Morgan Stanley\u2019s estimate of $5 trillion<\/a> by 2050 \u2014 a spread that reflects both the enormous potential and the uncertainty around tech that\u2019s still finding its footing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Meta has acquired humanoid robotics startup Assured Robot Intelligence for an undisclosed sum, the social media giant said. \u201cWe 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,\u201d a Meta spokesperson told TechCrunch in an…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-725067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}