May 4, 2026
After Blocked Manus AI Deal, Meta’s Next Mission Is Humanoid Robots

Meta’s purchase could address critical shifts in the ‘high-value labour’ markets. As per Bloomberg, the ARI will offer deep expertise about how it can design models and frontier capabilities for the robot control and adopt self-learning to control the whole-body humanoid. In a social media post, Xiaolong Wang, the co-founder of ARI, stated that their goal has been ‘training a truly general-purpose physical agent’.
