{"id":238235,"date":"2026-05-02T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/02\/meta-acquires-robotics-ai-startup-as-it-makes-the-push-into-humanoid-machines\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T10:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T14:50:13","slug":"meta-acquires-robotics-ai-startup-as-it-makes-the-push-into-humanoid-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/02\/meta-acquires-robotics-ai-startup-as-it-makes-the-push-into-humanoid-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta Acquires Robotics AI Startup As It Makes The Push Into Humanoid Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2162606\/meta-acquires-assured-robot-intelligence-humanoid-ai\/\">Meta Acquires Robotics AI Startup As It Makes The Push Into Humanoid Machines<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2162606\/meta-acquires-assured-robot-intelligence-humanoid-ai\/\">https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2162606\/meta-acquires-assured-robot-intelligence-humanoid-ai\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-02 10:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.engadget.com\">www.engadget.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <span class=\"gallery-image-credit\">Frame Stock Footage\/Shutterstock<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Meta has purchased\u00a0Assured Robot Intelligence (ARI), a startup company that&#8217;s building artificial intelligence for robots in order to &#8220;address critical challenges&#8221; in &#8220;high-value labor markets.&#8221; The company is already working on robot hardware and AI in-house, but a spokesperson told Bloomberg that ARI &#8220;will bring a deep expertise in how [it] can design [its] models and frontier capabilities for robot control and self-learning to whole-body humanoid control.&#8221; They\u00a0didn&#8217;t reveal the financial details of the acquisition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X, ARI co-founder Xiaolong Wang said that from the start, they knew achieving his company&#8217;s goals meant &#8220;training a truly general-purpose physical agent.&#8221; He continued that they now believe the agent will be humanoid and that &#8220;scaling will come from learning directly from human experience.&#8221; Meta, he added, has access to the &#8220;key components needed to make this vision possible.&#8221;\u00a0Wang, his co-founders Xuxin Cheng and Lerrel Pinto, and the ARI team will be joining Meta&#8217;s\u00a0Superintelligence Labs.\u00a0Pinto also co-founded Fauna Robotics but left the company last year before it was acquired by Amazon for its own humanoid robot project.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth said back in 2025\u00a0that the company is aiming to\u00a0create software that other companies can license, similar to what Google does with Android. &#8220;Software is the bottleneck,&#8221; he explained. 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