Meta is looking to enter the works of Robot Humanoid Ai

The Meta Platforms of the Mother Company has moved on Facebook beyond trying to connect humans and is ready to focus on building automatic areas. According to Report from BloombergMeta plans to pour money into a new project to build a human robots.

According to Meta, Meta is planning to start the project by building a robot capable of completing homework. But in the long run, it seems that the company is more interested in software business rather than dealing with devices, focusing on developing artificial intelligence that will operate these machines. Basically, Meta wants to make minds and leave the bodies for robots. She currently does not have ambitions to build her dead robot, For each BloombergAnd he has already started talking with companies such as Unitree Robotics and Figure Ai.

This effort will be chaired by Mark Whiten, who was the CEO of the self -driving car company before Resignation earlier this month When the mother company, General Motors, decided to leave the robotics work.

Whitten will fall under the Meta’s Reality Labs section, which will achieve modest success with its Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses, he managed to sell Million pairs last year. Before that, the department is famous for burning through 50 billion dollars over the past four years Try to make metavers something. They used this money successfully Give VR legs But it did not exceed that much.

Once it becomes clear that artificial intelligence will be a big, dead deal The axis of the reality laboratory department Increase in this direction, because if you burn money on the thing that everyone burns, no one will really notice. The company is said to have a good base of data from VR and AR experiments to help develop artificial intelligence of human robots. After all, the data was collected on how people see and interact with the world through its devices.

Last year, it announced that it would start Collecting “anonymous source” from Oculus headphones Including information about “hand and body and eye tracking” and “physical environments”. In addition, any Take photo or video Through the Meta Ray-Bans, it is used to training its AI systems.

The company will now try to convert all this data into a basis for programs that can run human robots. According to what Meta believes that these robots are still several years away from being available, and that even beyond being able to serve as artificial intelligence the foundations that robotics companies will use for their machines. But if anyone knows how to behave as a person while he is not complete, this is Mark Zuckerberg.