News Summary

• Meta has acquired humanoid robotics startup Assured Robot Intelligence (ARI) for an undisclosed sum.
• ARI's team, including its co-founders, will join Meta’s AI unit, the Superintelligence Labs research division.
• The startup was building foundation models for humanoid robots to perform all types of physical labor such as household chores.
• Meta researchers have been working on humanoid robotics tech for years.
• A leaked memo from a year ago discussed Meta's ambitions to build such a robot, including AI models and hardware, aimed at consumers.