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title: "Meta buys humanoid robotics startup Assured Robot Intelligence"
description: "Meta acquired Assured Robot Intelligence (ARI), whose team joins Meta Superintelligence Labs to work on humanoid robots."
url: https://kurddevelopers.com/en/news/meta-buys-assured-robot-intelligence
language: en # English
type: news
published: 2026-05-01T20:40:00.000Z
updated: 2026-11-02T04:14:02.000Z
author: "Osamah Ismail"
author_url: https://kurddevelopers.com/en/author/1
section: "AI"
tags: ["Meta","Robotics","Humanoid","AI"]
sources: ["TechCrunch","Meta"]
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# Meta buys humanoid robotics startup Assured Robot Intelligence

> Meta acquired Assured Robot Intelligence (ARI), whose team joins Meta Superintelligence Labs to work on humanoid robots.

![Image: Meta](https://kurddevelopers.com/uploads/2026/11/meta-social-16x9-1-d0a9b626.jpg)

## What happened
Meta acquired robotics startup **Assured Robot Intelligence (ARI)** for an undisclosed sum. ARI's team, including both co-founders, joins Meta's **Superintelligence Labs** research division.

## The founders
- ARI was founded by **Xiaolong Wang** and **Lerrel Pinto**.
- Pinto also co-founded Fauna Robotics, which Amazon bought last month.
- ARI had raised an undisclosed seed round from AIX Ventures.

## Why it matters
Big tech is racing into humanoid robots. Goldman Sachs projects a **$38 billion** robotics market by 2035, and Morgan Stanley estimates it could reach **$5 trillion** by 2050.

A Meta spokesperson said: "We acquired Assured Robot Intelligence, a company at the frontier of robotic intelligence."

**Sources:** TechCrunch, Meta

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Published by [Kurd Developers](https://kurddevelopers.com/) on 2026-05-01. Cite as: “Meta buys humanoid robotics startup Assured Robot Intelligence”, Kurd Developers, https://kurddevelopers.com/en/news/meta-buys-assured-robot-intelligence