Meta Wants To Become The Android Of Robotics

Assuming it tin move its Project Orion augmented reality glasses into a existent merchandise group tin buy, Meta apparently wants to get into robots next. That's according to Sources' Alex Heath, who said to Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth and reports that overmuch for illustration Apple, Google and Tesla, Meta is researching robotics.

Unlike those different companies, though, Meta apparently isn't each that focused connected competing successful hardware. It has a "Metabot" successful nan works, but its existent extremity is to create package that different companies tin license, overmuch for illustration Google does pinch Android. "Software is nan bottleneck," according to Bosworth, and nan dream is that nan mixed powers of Meta's robotics squad — led by Marc Whitten, nan erstwhile CEO of Cruise —  and its highly publicized Superintelligence Labs tin nutrient a solution.

That activity apparently starts pinch nan improvement of a "world model" that tin thief a robot "do nan package simulation required to animate a dexterous hand," but will presumably widen to much analyzable movements and tasks down nan road. In February 2025, Meta was reportedly looking astatine building a robot that could grip family chores for illustration cleaning aliases folding laundry. Given really early everything sounds, that's apt a agelong measurement off.

Meta isn't unsocial successful pursuing robotics. Apple is reportedly moving connected its ain home robots, starting pinch a table-mounted limb pinch a display. Tesla has regularly demoed versions of its Optimus robot to nan public, though often successful highly-controlled scenarios. Meta has yet to recognize its extremity of usurping nan smartphone pinch AR glasses. Whether aliases not it does, it sounds for illustration robots will beryllium nan point it burns money connected next.