Meta Acquires ARI to Fuel Humanoid Robot Push

Meta has acquired Assured Robot Intelligence (ARI), a startup developing artificial intelligence models for general-purpose, humanoid robots. Xiaolong Wang , who co-founded ARI with Lerrel Pinto , shared news of the acquisition in a Friday (May 1) post on X. “Excited to share that Assured Robot Intelligence (ARI) has joined [Meta] to help build the future of humanoid intelligence,” Wang said in the post.