Meta is forming a brand new workforce inside its Actuality Labs {hardware} division to construct robots that may help with bodily duties, Bloomberg reported. The workforce might be chargeable for creating humanoid robotics {hardware}, doubtlessly together with {hardware} that may carry out family chores.
Meta’s new robotics group, which might be led by Marc Whitten, driverless automobile startup Cruise’s former CEO, may also create robotic software program and AI, in line with Bloomberg’s reporting. Whitten has additionally had stints at Amazon, Microsoft, and Sonos, according to his LinkedIn profile.
To be clear, Meta’s plan isn’t to construct a Meta-branded robotic — a minimum of not initially. Quite, Meta executives together with CTO Andrew Bosworth imagine the corporate has a chance to construct a {hardware} basis for the remainder of the robotics market, per Bloomberg — just like what Google achieved with its Android working system within the smartphone sector.
Bloomberg studies that Meta has additionally entered into discussions with robotics firms, together with Unitree Robotics and Determine AI, to probably companion on prototypes.
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