Meta acquires robotics AI startup as it makes the push into humanoid machines
Engadget | 02.05.2026 21:00
Meta has purchased Assured Robot Intelligence (ARI), a startup company that's building artificial intelligence for robots in order to "address critical challenges" in "high-value labor markets." 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 [it] can design [its] models and frontier capabilities for robot control and self-learning to whole-body humanoid control." They didn't reveal the financial details of the acquisition.
