Meta acquires a startup Assured Robot Intelligence to bolster its robotics team, which is working on humanoid hardware and the underlying AI that powers it (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-01/meta-acquires-assured-robot-intelligence-to-help-build-humanoid-technology"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260501/i15.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260501/p15#a260501p15" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Mark Gurman / <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/">Bloomberg</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-01/meta-acquires-assured-robot-intelligence-to-help-build-humanoid-technology">Meta acquires a startup Assured Robot Intelligence to bolster its robotics team, which is working on humanoid hardware and the underlying AI that powers it</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Meta Platforms Inc. has acquired Assured Robot Intelligence, a startup developing artificial intelligence models for robots &hellip; </p>