{"id":594721,"date":"2026-05-01T19:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T19:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=594721"},"modified":"2026-05-01T19:35:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T19:35:00","slug":"meta-buys-robot-brain-startup-as-zuck-wants-humanoids-in-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=594721","title":{"rendered":"Meta Buys Robot Brain Startup As Zuck Wants Humanoids In Homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Meta Buys Robot Brain Startup As Zuck Wants Humanoids In Homes <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>After the Oculus and Metaverse bets turned into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/meta-shares-jump-after-zuckerberg-prepares-deep-cuts-metaverse-following-epic-flop\">costly disappointments<\/a> for Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s Meta Platforms, the tech giant&#8217;s pivot to real-world humanoid robotics appears to be gaining momentum, with news Friday afternoon that it is acquiring Assured Robot Intelligence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-05-01\/meta-acquires-assured-robot-intelligence-to-help-build-humanoid-technology\">Bloomberg<\/a> reports that Meta has closed the acquisition of the humanoid robotics startup, which develops AI models to help robots understand, predict, and adapt to human behavior in complex environments.<\/p>\n<p>What Meta has acquired appears to be a &#8220;robot brain&#8221; designed to give Zuckerberg&#8217;s humanoid robots better control, self-learning capabilities, and whole-body movement, enabling them to operate around people and perform physical tasks. Eventually, Zuckerberg wants these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/meta-plans-new-ai-humanoid-robot-household-chores-headline-fuels-stock-rally-further\">bots in your home<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/902cda3e-ee1a-4a19-b18e-bd4494784dcf_1600x950.png?itok=7NTUONOX\" data-link-option=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/902cda3e-ee1a-4a19-b18e-bd4494784dcf_1600x950.png?itok=7NTUONOX\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"5f463978-7b8b-478b-bdbb-5944dc77b49c\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" height=\"297\" width=\"500\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/902cda3e-ee1a-4a19-b18e-bd4494784dcf_1600x950.png?itok=7NTUONOX\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Under the deal, co-founders Lerrel Pinto and Xiaolong Wang will join Meta Superintelligence Labs and work with the Meta Robotics Studio.<\/p>\n<p>There is no information about the robot brains on ARI&#8217;s website. Using the commercial risk intelligence firm Sayari, we can see the founders and directors of the startup.<\/p>\n<p><a data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2026-05-01_13-42-42.png?itok=sirSV-Qy\" data-link-option=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2026-05-01_13-42-42.png?itok=sirSV-Qy\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"46854c3f-3624-44e6-909b-6218cd12888b\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/2026-05-01_13-42-42.png?itok=sirSV-Qy\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More interestingly, trade data shows that ARI imported &#8220;8529.90 &#8211; Parts for TVs &amp; Radios&#8221; from India.<\/p>\n<p><a data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2026-05-01_13-43-37.png?itok=E8H21L6x\" data-link-option=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2026-05-01_13-43-37.png?itok=E8H21L6x\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"a5bc9a21-6f85-4c61-9658-625c12eb0c2b\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" height=\"243\" width=\"500\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/2026-05-01_13-43-37.png?itok=E8H21L6x\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, Zuck can end his cold streak of failures with humanoid robots.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" lang=\"\" class=\"username\" xml:lang=\"\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Fri, 05\/01\/2026 &#8211; 15:35<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/902cda3e-ee1a-4a19-b18e-bd4494784dcf_1600x950.png?itok=7NTUONOX\" title=\"Meta Buys Robot Brain Startup As Zuck Wants Humanoids In Homes\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Buys Robot Brain Startup As Zuck Wants Humanoids In Homes After the Oculus and Metaverse bets turned into costly disappointments for Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s Meta Platforms, the tech giant&#8217;s pivot to real-world humanoid robotics appears to be gaining momentum, with news Friday afternoon that it is acquiring Assured Robot Intelligence. Bloomberg reports that Meta has&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=594721\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meta Buys Robot Brain Startup As Zuck Wants Humanoids In Homes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":594722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-594721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=594721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/594722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=594721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=594721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=594721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}