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Facebook's parent company, whose FAIR lab researches world models while a separate team builds humanoid robots.

Meta began as Facebook, founded by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004, and was renamed in 2021; it is headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Two threads connect it to embodied AI. First is its foundational-research division, FAIR, which has produced the video world model V-JEPA 2, the vision-and-touch sensor Digit 360, and the simulated-humanoid-control model Meta Motivo, most of them released open source. Second is a humanoid-robotics team formed within Reality Labs in February 2025, led by former Cruise CEO Marc Whitten, working internally under the project name Metabot; CTO Andrew Bosworth said in September 2025 that Meta wants to build a software platform it can license to other robot makers, similar to Android. In May 2026, Meta acquired Assured Robot Intelligence, a startup working on full-body humanoid control, folding the team into its Superintelligence Labs (MSL).

ExampleV-JEPA 2-AC pairs an action predictor with Meta's open-sourced video model to serve as a world model, letting a Franka arm perform zero-shot pick-and-place.

Also called: Meta Platforms, Facebook
Related: Meta Fundamental AI Research · Assured Robot Intelligence · V-JEPA 2 · Digit 360 · Meta Motivo · AMI Labs
Sources: Meta buys robotics startup to bolster its humanoid AI ambitions (TechCrunch, 2026-05)
Meta wants to become the Android of robotics (Engadget, 2025-09)
Meta Platforms accelerates robotics efforts with leadership changes (DIGITIMES, 2025-11)
As of: 2026-05