Overview

• Bosworth confirmed a robotics research effort stood up this year at Mark Zuckerberg’s direction, positioning Meta to license its platform to third‑party robot makers rather than prioritize in‑house hardware.
• An internal humanoid prototype dubbed “Metabot” is under development as a reference system, but the effort remains early with no timeline for a consumer product.
• Meta’s Superintelligence Labs is collaborating with the robotics group on a world model to simulate and control dexterous hands, addressing missing sensor‑loop data that current systems lack.
• The team is led by Marc Whitten, with key talent moves including MIT roboticist Sangbae Kim, longtime Meta engineer Ning Li leading engineering, and Jinsong Yu staying on to support the push.
• Meta is evaluating potential silicon and backbone partners such as Nvidia and Qualcomm, and Bosworth questioned how Tesla’s Optimus approach will gather sufficient robotic data.