Meta is reported to work on humanoid robots that help with duties
If you look at Roomba with disgust, consider what a far cry is from the Jetsons pink robot, the help is on the way. Bloomberg reported On Friday, Meta plans to use its progress in AI and increased reality to build a futuristic humanoid robot platform that can help house laundry.
Meta is reported to create a new team within its Reality Laboratory Hardware Departmentwhich is handled Quest VR headphones and the long -term Project of Orion Ar Glasses ProjectS Although it will build a robot hardware during development, Meta’s long -term goal looks more like Android, where Google makes the software platform that almost all industry (outside Apple) is using. Meta will make the main sensors, AI and software so that other companies can put in their hardware. In other words, he wants to be an Android Android.
At least initially, Meta plans to make the central focus of the project host. Bloomberg Lists the folding of laundry, carrying glasses of water, putting dinner dishes in the dishwasher and other domestic duties such as examples of building excitement around what can be a disturbing product category for many people. (For examples of why these concerns can be justified, do not look further than the Unitree G1 robot who Running at full speed and Caris Bell and CES on EngadgetYou press her against the crowd for a moment.)
Talking about Unitree, Meta reports that she has held early discussions with the Chinese robotic company, which also makes a quadruple “dog robot” that can run around, climb stairs and sit on her hind legs as a good girl. It is also claimed that he has discussed his plans with California -based Humanoid Robot manufacturer AI, which can Number Openai, Nvidia, Microsoft, Intel and Jeff Bezos among their investors.
Today’s humanoid robots are not advanced enough to get involved around the house like Rosie, but Meta believes all the resources that are Sinking into AI and Xr They continue on their way to this destination. Although the company believes this will take several years before the useful humanoid robots are widely available, the Meta Andrew Bosworth CEO looks at the company’s progress, low bandwidth calculations, and always sensors as advantages.
“The main technologies in which we have already invested and built in reality laboratories and AIs complement the development of the progress needed for robotics,” Bosworth said in a note. “We believe that the expansion of our portfolio to invest in this area will accumulate value only for Meta AI and our mixed and advanced reality programs.”
Meta is not alone in raising her eyebrows in the prospect of home robots for (probably rich) users. Last year the news broke this Apple worked on roboticsS Ditto for GoogleS Both companies have published Research Reports On their robotics work. Flying cars You may have to wait, but Rosie looks much smaller as the dream of the pipe.
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