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Meta buys robotic startup to bolster its humanoid AI ambitions
Key takeaways
- Meta has acquired humanoid robotics startup Assured Robot Intelligence for an undisclosed sum, the social media giant said.
- 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.
Why this matters: a development in AI with implications for how people work, create, and decide.
Meta has acquired humanoid robotics startup Assured Robot Intelligence for an undisclosed sum, the social media giant said.
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 Tech Crunch in an emailed statement.
ARI s team, including its co-founders, will join Meta s AI unit, the Superintelligence Labs research division. ARI had raised an undisclosed seed round from AI seed firm AIX Ventures.
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