Meta Buys Deeper Into the Humanoid Intelligence Stack
Meta’s acquisition of Assured Robot Intelligence adds a team working on robot learning, imitation, manipulation and whole-body control.
Meta buys deeper into humanoid intelligence with Assured Robot Intelligence acquisition
Meta has acquired Assured Robot Intelligence, a young robotics AI company focused on humanoid intelligence and robot control. Financial terms were not disclosed. The ARI team, including co-founders Lerrel Pinto and Xiaolong Wang, is joining Meta Superintelligence Labs and will work closely with Meta Robotics Studio.
ARI developed robotic intelligence intended to help robots understand, predict and adapt to human behaviour in dynamic environments. It had not disclosed a commercial humanoid fleet.
Pinto co-founded Fauna Robotics before leaving in 2025. Amazon acquired Fauna in March 2026.
Pinto’s research includes imitation learning, teleoperation, mobile manipulation, tactile dexterity, robot memory, behaviour generation and deployment adaptation.
Wang is a UC San Diego professor and co-founder of ARI. His own site describes ARI’s mission as building “super-intelligent humanoid robots at scale,” while Nvidia’s research profile lists his work across computer vision, robotics and robot learning, including legged robot vision-language-action navigation and object-centric manipulation.
AMO, a 2025 Robotics Science and Systems project with Wang as an author, focuses on adaptive motion optimisation for hyper-dexterous humanoid whole-body control.
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