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 executive told maine recently. That suggests nan institution plans to walk billions of dollars connected nan effort.

During a caller speech astatine Meta's headquarters, CTO Andrew Bosworth said he stood up a robotics "research effort" earlier this twelvemonth astatine nan guidance 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 nan hardware is nan difficult part," he …

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