Mark Zuckerberg-guided Meta has started making important investments in the Humanoid Robots category and forms a team with the hardware division of Reality Labs to perform the work, according to a report from Bloomberg.
Allegedly, Meta is planning to work on his own humanoid Robot hardware with a focus on household tasks in the beginning. Later the company plans to make underlying AI, sensors and software for robots that are manufactured and sold by different companies.
Meta confirmed the creation of the new team on Friday and told them that it will be led by March Whitten, who recently resigned as CEO of General Motors.
Meta's Chief Technology Officer, Andrew Bosworth, wrote to employees (via Bloomberg), “The core technologies in which we have already invested and built in reality labs and AI are complementary to the development of the progress needed for robotics”,
“We believe that expanding our portfolio to invest in this area will only build value for Meta AI and our mixed and augmented reality programs,” Bosworth added.
The Senior Meta Executive has also reportedly spoken about the progress of the company in hand, computer use at low bandwidth and always on sensors.
Meta wants to be Google and Qualcomm from Humanoid Robots:
It is said that Senior Meta managers believe that humanoid robotics have made progress in hardware and that are accompanied by its own progress in AI and data collected from augmented and virtual reality divisions can help industry ahead.
Meta wants to offer what Google's Android OS and the Qualcomm chips have for the smartphone industry. In essence, building a basis for the rest of the market.
The software sensors and computer packages that Meta is already developing are some of the same technologies needed to power humanoids. Meta has already invested billions of dollars in its reality Labs division that is responsible for the sale of Quest VR headset and its Ray-Ban Smart glasses. In the meantime, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has also promised to spend $ 65 billion on building AI infrastructure in 2025.
Meta's development of humanoid robots, which is still a few years away, could bring it in direct competition with Elon Musk led Tesla's Optimus Robot. In particular, Zuckerberg and Musk have had a rough history in recent years with the tensions that cook to a point where the technical managers challenged each other for a cage match.
Musk often shares the progress of his Optimus robot on X and said that it would eventually be sold to consumers for around $ 30,000. Tesla is planning to introduce more than 1,000 Optimus robots in its production lines next year, a movement that believes that Musk believes that Tesla's operational efficiency could improve considerably and the company can float to a valuation of $ 25 trillion.
