Forbes February 14, 2025
John Koetsier

Humanoid robots have entered the Oprah phase: You build a humanoid robot! You build a humanoid robot! Everyone build a humanoid robot! According to a story by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who often gets leaks right, Meta is now planning a major investment into building humanoid robots.

Because, of course, that’s the obvious next step for a massive social media company.

While Meta will reportedly develop its own hardware, a core reason for the company’s surprising jump into robots is the success of its AI models, which are critical for helping robots make sense of the world, understand commands, work with humans safely and accomplish tasks autonomously.

“Our new Robotics product group will focus on research and development in the space...

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