Meta has purchased Assured Robot Intelligence, a startup focused on teaching humanoid machines to anticipate and react to human behaviour, as per reports from several tech news outlets. The financial details of the acquisition remain private.

The small firm’s entire group, including its two founders, will move into Meta’s Superintelligence Labs, the division responsible for advanced artificial intelligence research, states a report by TechCrunch on the matter. The team had previously secured seed backing from AIX Ventures, though the exact amount was not revealed.

Both founders bring substantial robotics experience. Xiaolong Wang spent time on chip design at Nvidia and later taught at the University of California, San Diego. Lerrel Pinto held a faculty position at New York University and previously helped launch Fauna Robotics, a startup making child-sized humanoids that Amazon absorbed last month. Each has collected a series of honours in their field.

Meta signalled that the acquisition would strengthen its ability to design models for full-body robot control and self-supervised learning. The company has been quietly developing humanoid technology for years; internal documents from 2025 described plans to create a consumer robot, complete with custom hardware and intelligence software, states the TechCrunch report.