Meta Platforms recently completed its purchase of Assured Robot Intelligence, a startup developing AI models for robots, as part of a major initiative focused on building humanoid technology.
A representative for Meta told Mobile World Live it closed the acquisition on the 1st of May 2026. Financial terms were not disclosed.
“We acquired Assured Robot Intelligence, a company at the frontier of robotic intelligence designed to enable robots to understand, predict and adapt to human behaviours in complex and dynamic environments”, Meta stated.
The representative explained the Assured Robot Intelligence “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”.
Bloomberg reported the Assured Robot Intelligence team will join Meta’s Superintelligence Labs where co-founders Lerrel Pinto and Xiaolong Wang will work alongside Meta Robotics Studio, a research group stablished in 2025 to develop underlying technology for humanoids.
According to their LinkedIn accounts, Wang was previously a research scientist at Nvidia while Pinto was co-founder of Fauna Robotics prior to it being sold to Amazon in March to support its own humanoid robot efforts.
Source: Mobile World Live
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