The Platforma goal of the Facebook parent company have gone beyond trying to connect humans and is ready to concentrate on building robotics. According to a Bloomberg reportMeta plans to pour money into a new project to build humanoid robots with AI.
According to the reports, Meta plans to start the project by building a robot capable of completing domestic tasks. But in the long term, it seems that the company is more interested in being in the software business instead of dealing with hardware, with an approach in developing the AI that will feed these machines. Basically, goal wants to make the brain and leave the bodies to robotics. He currently has no ambitions to build his own goal bot, By BloombergAnd it has already begun to have conversations with companies such as Unitree Robotics and Figure AI.
The effort will be headed by Marc Whitten, who served as CEO of the Autonomous Company of the Autonomous Company Cruise before giving up at the beginning of this month when the General Motor Motor Company decided to leave the Robotaxi business.
Whitten team will fall under the goal reality laboratories division, which comes from a modest success with its smart goggles Ray-Ban, managing to sell one million pairs last year. Before that, the department was better known to burn $ 50 billion during four years in an attempt to do a thing met. They successfully used that money to give VR Avatars’s legs, but they really didn’t exceed too much.
Once it became clear that AI was going to be a big problem, Meta turned its reality laboratories department more and more in that direction, because if you are burning money in what everyone is burning money, then nobody really realizes. And, according to reports, the company believes that it has a good database of its virtual reality and AR experiments to help develop AI for humanoid robots. After all, he has been collecting data on how humans see and interact with the world through their devices.
Last year, he announced that he would begin Collect “anonymity” data from the Oculus headphones including information about “hand, body and ocular monitoring” and “physical environments”. In addition, anyone photo or video taken Through the finishing lens of Ray-Bans, his AI systems are used to train even more.
Now the company will try to convert all those data into the base of the software that can feed humanoid robots. According to reports, Meta believes that these bots are still several years after being available, and that it is even further to be able to serve as the underlying AI that will be used by robotics companies for their machines. But if there is someone who knows how to act as a human without being completely one, it is Mark Zuckerberg.