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

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

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Building humanoid robots is Meta’s next “AR size bet,” a top executive told me recently. That suggests the company plans to spend billions of dollars on the effort.

During a recent conversation at Meta’s headquarters, CTO Andrew Bosworth said he stood up a robotics “research effort” earlier this year at the direction of CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The team’s existence has been reported on before, but Bosworth hadn’t discussed its strategy in-depth until our interview.

“I don’t think the hardware is the hard part,” he …

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