Embodied AI Glossary中文Assured Robot Intelligence
ARIAdvancedA startup building whole-body control models for humanoid robots, acquired by Meta in 2026.
Assured Robot Intelligence (ARI) was a roughly 20-person robotics AI startup headquartered in San Diego, reportedly founded around 2025. Co-founder and CEO Lerrel Pinto is a professor at New York University, and co-founder and CTO Xiaolong Wang is an associate professor at UC San Diego who had previously done research at NVIDIA. The company's goal was to build foundation models for humanoid robots, particularly whole-body control — a single model coordinating legs, arms, and torso together. Its seed round was funded by AIX Ventures. In May 2026, Meta announced it was acquiring ARI for an undisclosed amount, folding the team into Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), with Pinto leading frontier robotics models and Wang serving as research director.
- Also called
- ARI
- Related
- Whole-Body Control · Humanoid Robot · Embodied Foundation Model · Meta Fundamental AI Research · Learning-Based Whole-Body Control
- Sources
- Meta Accelerates Push Into Robotics Intelligence With New Acquisition (Business Insider)
Lerrel Pinto homepage - As of
- 2026-05