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Meta wants to become the Android of robotics

Meta is developing its own robot hardware and software via a new team led by former Cruise CEO Marc Whitten.

Assuming it can turn its Project Orion augmented reality glasses into a real product people can buy, Meta apparently wants to get into robots next. "Software is the bottleneck," according to Bosworth, and the hope is that the combined powers of Meta's robotics team — led by Marc Whitten, the former CEO of Cruise — and its highly publicized Superintelligence Labs can produce a solution. That work apparently starts with the development of a "world model" that can help a robot "do the software simulation required to animate a dexterous hand," but will presumably extend to more complicated movements and tasks down the road.

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