Meta has acquired Assured Robot Intelligence, a humanoid robotics startup specializing in AI models that learn from human behavior, for an undisclosed sum. The ARI team, led by award-winning researchers Lerrel Pinto and Xiaolong Wang, will join Meta’s ...

NEO Pricing and Availability NEO is available via 1X’s online store [1x.tech/order] and comes in three distinct colors (Tan, Gray, Dark Brown). Customers interested in owning one of the first NEOs can purchase Early Access for $20,000, which includes priority delivery in 2026. There will also be a subscription model offering of $499/month.

Explore the top humanoid robots from Tesla, Unitree, Agility Robotics, UBTech, and more, ranked by momentum, real-world use, and commercial potential.

Meta Platforms has acquired Assured Robot Intelligence to strengthen its push into humanoid robotics, joining a fast-growing market projected to reach trillions by 2050. The move comes as U.S. firm 1X scales up production of its Neo home robots, aiming for ...

Last year at the Humanoid Robot Half-Marathon in Beijing the winning robot stumbled across the finish line in 2 hours and 40 minutes; much slower than a human. This past week, a C

This breakthrough marks Panther as the world’s first mass-producible, commercially viable service humanoid robot deployed in real households, breaking through the long-standing

On this episode of Bloomberg Primer, we explore the gap between futuristic hype and reality—and how quickly it will shrink.