Meta Built Humanoid Prototype 'Max' With Fourier in Three Months
TL;DR
- The prototype, internally codenamed Max, weighs about 106 pounds (roughly 48 kg) and was built in about three months, The Information reports.
- Meta is already building a second version and frames the robots as the physical embodiment of its Muse agent for household tasks.
- Meta says it has no plans to sell these units, and Reuters could not immediately verify the single-source report.
Meta worked with Chinese startup Fourier Intelligence to build a prototype humanoid robot in about three months and is already building a second version, The Information reported on Saturday, citing people familiar with the initiative.
The prototype is internally codenamed Max and weighs about 106 pounds, roughly 48 kilograms. Meta "sees humanoid robots as the physical embodiment of its Muse agent and hopes they will perform various household tasks," per the Reuters summary of the report. The company says it has no plans to sell these units.
Reuters could not immediately verify the report. Neither Meta nor Fourier has published specs or images.
It is the second humanoid filing on our tracker in a day, after a startup collapsed robot compute onto a single Nvidia Jetson Thor, and it lands the same morning S&P cut Meta's credit outlook to negative over its AI spending.
Originally reported by theinformation.com
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