Meta is forming a brand new staff inside its Actuality Labs {hardware} division to construct robots that may help with bodily duties, Bloomberg reported. The staff can be liable for creating humanoid robotics {hardware}, probably together with {hardware} that may carry out family chores.
Meta’s new robotics group, which can be led by Marc Whitten, driverless automotive startup Cruise’s former CEO, may even create robotic software program and AI, in accordance 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 — at the least not initially. Moderately, Meta executives together with CTO Andrew Bosworth consider the corporate has a possibility to construct a {hardware} basis for the remainder of the robotics market, per Bloomberg — much like what Google completed with its Android working system within the smartphone sector.
Bloomberg experiences that Meta has additionally entered into discussions with robotics firms, together with Unitree Robotics and Determine AI, to presumably companion on prototypes.