Coming as a major initiative to build humanoid technology, Meta has acquired Assured Robot Intelligence, a startup developing artificial intelligence models for robots. The financial terms for the deal weren’t disclosed. Meta said the startup is at the frontier of robotic intelligence designed to enable robots to understand, predict and adapt to human behaviours in complex and dynamic environments.
The acquisition pushes Meta further into humanoid AI robotics as the company is making a significant investment in humanoids. The emerging sector has been gaining steam at many of the industry’s biggest companies, including Tesla Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Amazon.com Inc. Humanoids are futuristic robots that can move like humans and assist with physical tasks.
As reported by Bloomberg, Meta’s robotics team is working on in-house humanoid hardware and the underlying AI that powers it. That includes developing sensors, software and other technology for robots that it will make available to others in the industry, meaning they could ultimately be used by a range of companies.
The Assured Robot Intelligence team includes co-founders Lerrel Pinto and Xiaolong Wang will join the Meta Superintelligence Labs research division. The staff will work closely with Meta Robotics Studio, a team launched last year to work on underlying technology for humanoids.
Previously, Wang was working as a researcher at Nvidia Corp., while Pinto was a co-founder of Fauna Robotics before leaving in 2025. Amazon acquired Fauna in March to help bolster its own humanoid robot effort.
Meta has recently posted the Q1 earnings beating the expectations, driven by strong ad growth and rising AI investment.
Meta reported first quarter 2026 earnings per share of $10.44 on revenue of $56.31 billion
Meta has committed aggressively to AI infrastructure, with billions flowing into data centers and hardware intended to support the company’s AI ambitions across its products.
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