{"id":211677,"date":"2026-05-05T09:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/battle-for-androids-meta-acquires-brain-for-robots\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T14:25:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T18:25:14","slug":"battle-for-androids-meta-acquires-brain-for-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/battle-for-androids-meta-acquires-brain-for-robots\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle for androids: Meta acquires brain for robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/universemagazine.com\/en\/battle-for-androids-meta-acquires-brain-for-robots\/\">Battle for androids: Meta acquires brain for robots<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/universemagazine.com\/en\/battle-for-androids-meta-acquires-brain-for-robots\/\">https:\/\/universemagazine.com\/en\/battle-for-androids-meta-acquires-brain-for-robots\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-05 09:32:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"universemagazine.com\">universemagazine.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Meta has acquired startup Assured Robot Intelligence (ARI), known for developing foundational AI models to enhance humanoid robot understanding of human behavior.<\/li>\n<li>ARI&#8217;s expertise in software models helps Meta aim to create an open software platform for humanoid robotics, similar to Google&#8217;s Android initiative for smartphones.<\/li>\n<li>The acquisition highlights Meta&#8217;s focus on software rather than hardware, addressing what Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth termed &#8220;the software bottleneck&#8221; in robotic advancements.<\/li>\n<li>The deal reflects the intense competition among tech giants in the humanoid robotics sector, with Amazon acquiring a competitor and Tesla progressing with its Optimus line of robots.<\/li>\n<li>Meta aims to develop licensed software that will become a standard for the industry, boosting the global market for humanoid robotics expected to grow significantly from $2.64 billion in 2024 to $38.4 billion by 2035.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Battle for androids: Meta acquires brain for robots https:\/\/universemagazine.com\/en\/battle-for-androids-meta-acquires-brain-for-robots\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-05 09:32:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/universemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/humanoid-robot-meta.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211677"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211679,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211677\/revisions\/211679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}