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Assured Robot Intelligence (ARI) was a San Diego-based robotics AI startup founded in 2021 by Xiaolong Wang (ex-Nvidia researcher, UC San Diego professor) and Lerrel Pinto (NYU faculty, co-founder of Fauna Robotics). The company built foundation models that let humanoid robots understand, predict and adapt to human behavior in complex physical environments, and developed the e-Flesh tactile-sensing platform.
ARI raised an undisclosed seed round backed by AIX Ventures. Meta Platforms acquired the company on 1 May 2026 for an undisclosed sum; the ARI team joined Meta Superintelligence Labs to work alongside Meta Robotics Studio on whole-body humanoid control.