Meta has acquired Assured Robot Intelligence, a humanoid robotics startup specializing in AI models that learn from human behavior, for an undisclosed sum. The ARI team, led by award-winning researchers Lerrel Pinto and Xiaolong Wang, will join Meta’s ...

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Meta has purchased Assured Robot Intelligence (ARI), a humanoid robotics startup, to strengthen its Superintelligence Labs division and advance physical AI capabilities. The acquisition brings in co-founders Lerrel Pinto and Xiaolong Wang, both with deep ...

Humanoid robots are getting a new gig as baggage handlers and cargo loaders at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport—part of a Japan Airlines experiment to address a human labor shortage as airport visitor numbers have surged in recent years.