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The construction of Humanoid Robot is Mata’s next “AR Size Bet”, a top executive told me recently. It suggests that the company plans to spend billions of dollars on the effort.
During a recent conversation at Meta headquarters, CTO Andrew Bosworth said he had made a robotics “research effort” under the direction of CEO Mark Zuckerberg earlier this year. The existence of the team has been reported earlier, but Bosworth did not discuss his strategy deeply till our interview.
“I don’t think hardware is a hard part,” he told me ahead of Meta’s recent connect conference. “I am not saying that hardware is also not difficult, but it is not a hurdle. There is a hurdle software.”
To display, Bosworth picked up my glass water from a table between us. “If you know robotics, you have one of the biggest problems, rare manipulation,” he said. “These robots, they can stand, they can run, they can flip a one, because the ground is a super stable thing.” Conversely, a robot is trying to take a glass of water “immediately crush it or spread all the water.”
“I am not saying that hardware is also not difficult, but it is not a hurdle. There is a hurdle software.”
While the Meta is currently creating its own own humanoids, or “metabotes” because it is called internal, Bosworth has imagined the company to license its software platforms to other robot manufacturers. “I don’t care about being a hardware manufacturer,” he explained. Instead, Meta plans to contact it similar to Google, which licenses their software to phone manufacturers. According to Bosworth, this idea is to develop software blueprint meta and let any company use it “until your robot meets these glasses.”
He said that the new Superintendent of Mata AI Lab is collaborating to create a “world model” with a robotics group, which “can do the software simulation required to conscious a skilled hand.” (Demis Hasabis of Google Deepmind has often spoken about his goal of building a world model that brings spatial awareness to AI.) A “sensor loop is not present” for a human being “Censor Loop” is capable of bringing a set of keys out of a jeans pocket like a human, Bosworth said. “So you have to build that data set.”
He said, “We will not do this if we do not have a lab, if we don’t think we are going to build models that can do so,” he said, the new team is being led by CEO Alexandra Wang on the pre -scale CEO Alexandra Wang.
When I asked about the approach that Elon was carrying with Musk Optimus, Bosworth said that the manufacture of humoids would not work in the same way that Tesla has made his self-draining platform: “They are preferring, ‘Look, we are not alive, we can find it with enough data. I can see how Tesla cars are getting enough data.
“If we do not have a lab, we will not do this.”
Former CEO of Self-Driving Company Cruise, Mark Whiten is leading the Robotics team of Meta. According to Bosworth, “The real story is the talent we are able to pull.” He exposed Sangbe Kim – “The biggest strategic robotist in the game” – Joe Meta hired MIT earlier this year. He also told the story of convincing a senior meta engineer, Jensong U, who architers the software for the Orion AR Chashma Prototype, not to retire and join the team. And the veteran Ning Lee of the 15 -year -old company is now leading the engineering team for robotics.
Based on my conversation with Bosworth, it appears that the meta still has a lot to find out about its robotics strategy. He mentioned how there is a group of people competing to be a backbone provider for humanoids at the silicone level, such as Nvidia and Qualcomm, and this meta “is considering all those pieces.” And even though he implicated the effort in the same category, as the billions of meta are spending on AR, Bosworth seemed to reduce the need for a robot that is proficiently advanced as Tesla’s optimus.
“I don’t think you need 23 degrees freedom in your hand. Two thumbs will be good. I only need two thumbs.”
