Meta is forming a brand new staff inside its Actuality Labs {hardware} division to construct robots that may help with bodily duties, Bloomberg reported. The staff will probably be chargeable for creating humanoid robotics {hardware}, doubtlessly together with {hardware} that may carry out family chores.

Meta’s new robotics group, which will probably be led by Marc Whitten, driverless automobile startup Cruise’s former CEO, may also create robotic software program and AI, in accordance with Bloomberg’s reporting. Whitten has additionally had stints at Amazon, Microsoft, and Sonos, according to his LinkedIn profile.

To be clear, Meta’s plan isn’t to construct a Meta-branded robotic — at the least not initially. Moderately, Meta executives together with CTO Andrew Bosworth imagine the corporate has a possibility to construct a {hardware} basis for the remainder of the robotics market, per Bloomberg — just like what Google completed with its Android working system within the smartphone sector.

Bloomberg experiences that Meta has additionally entered into discussions with robotics corporations, together with Unitree Robotics and Determine AI, to probably associate on prototypes.