Humanoid robots are Meta’s next ‘AR-size bet’

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Building humanoid robots is Meta's adjacent "AR size bet," a apical enforcement told maine recently. That suggests the institution plans to walk billions of dollars connected the effort.

During a caller speech astatine Meta's headquarters, CTO Andrew Bosworth said helium stood up a robotics "research effort" earlier this twelvemonth astatine the absorption of CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The team's beingness has been reported on before, but Bosworth hadn't discussed its strategy in-depth until our interview.

"I don't deliberation the hardware is the hard part," helium …

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