Meta built a robot in 3 months, report says
Meta built a humanoid robot called Max with Chinese startup Fourier in about 3 months, The Information reported. Meta said the work is internal research with no plan to sell it.
Meta and Fourier's robot MaxMeta built a humanoid robot called Max with Chinese startup Fourier in about 3 months, The Information reported on the 31st of October 2026. Investing.com and Reuters carried the report.
Meta told The Information that the work is internal research and that it has no plan to sell the robot. A humanoid robot is a machine shaped like a person.
What Max is like
Max stands about 1.5 metres tall and weighs about 106 pounds, The Information reported. It runs on an Nvidia Jetson Thor computer chip, the report said.
It has hands with five fingers for small objects and a screen that shows facial expressions, The Information reported.
How it was built
Meta's robotics team worked at Fourier's factory in Shanghai, The Information reported. Robotics product chief Li-Chen Miller spent almost two months there, the report said.
Max was shown to some Meta staff at an internal event in late August, The Information reported.
A second version
Work on Max 2 began in September, The Information reported. It is expected to get a new body, better hands, a projector and sensors to climb stairs.
Meta sees such robots as a possible body for its Muse AI helper, to help with house chores, The Information reported.
Below we break down the size
A weight of 106 pounds is about 48 kilograms, by our arithmetic. A height of 1.5 metres is just under 5 feet.
What is confirmed and what is not
Meta confirmed only that the work with Fourier is internal research. The size, chip and build time come from people cited by The Information.
The Information's story is behind a paywall. This article relies on the Investing.com and Reuters reports of it.
Key facts
Meta built a humanoid robot called Max with Fourier, The Information reported.
It took about 3 months to build, the report said.
Max is about 1.5 metres tall and weighs about 48 kilograms, the report said.
Meta said the work is internal research with no plan to sell it.
A second version, Max 2, began in September, The Information reported.