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Meta just acquired Assured Robot Intelligence.
Their team is the story.
Co-founder Lerrel Pinto previously co-founded Fauna Robotics, left in 2025, and Amazon acquired Fauna in March for its own humanoid push.
His work sits deep in robot learning: imitation, teleoperation, tactile dexterity, mobile manipulation and deployment adaptation.
Co-founder Xiaolong Wang is a UCSD professor and was previously a researcher at Nvidia.
His work spans vision, representation learning, robot learning and whole-body control.
ARI was building toward the intelligence layer for humanoids. Now the team is joining

Top robotics rounds in April 2026

Although most are still early stage and experimental, a number of humanoid and semi-humanoid form factors are beginning to emerge in India.

Remember the 1X NEO hype?
@xmaquina, a project in the @peaq ecosystem, has just voted to acquire some shares in their company
They are essentially positioning themselves as proxy exposure to web2 robotics growth by acquiring a treasury of hard to access shares
Interestingly, 1X is rumoured to be preparing to raise $1B at a ~$9B valuation, while xmaquina’s acquisition comes via secondary markets around $4.55B valuation
Currently they already hold a stake in:
> Apptronik
> Figure AI
> Agility Robotics
Accessibility to sector exposure is a key selling point of robotics in web3, interesting to see

GM Robot and AI enjoyers
Looks like the move into robotics from @virtuals_io is being recognised, they are now added to the category on Coingecko
Between them and @peaq, a huge amount of the overall activity is orbiting their ecosystems and are real driving forces for progression
Today is also a big day for the advancement of the machine economy
In a world first, peaq is collaborating with @DualMintRWA to tokenize a robo farm that will share profits with holders
Looking at their app, it seems we might be seeing another robo farm round and even a robo cafe in the future
The future of robotics i