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ميتا بنت روبوت منزلي اسمه Max في ثلاثة أشهر مع شركة صينية — والنسخة الثانية قيد التطوير (تقرير)

Meta built a household robot called Max in three months with a Chinese partner, and a second version is already in the works (report)

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Machine-translated — the Arabic text is the original
ميتا بنت روبوت منزلي اسمه Max في ثلاثة أشهر مع شركة صينية — والنسخة الثانية قيد التطوير (تقرير)الصورة: Kevin Frayer/Getty Images عبر Engadget

Meta does not want to stop at glasses. A report from The Information (carried by Engadget on November 1 and by UAE outlet tbreak the same day) says Meta built a humanoid robot prototype internally named Max, together with Chinese robotics firm Fourier, and finished it in roughly three months. Meta has not confirmed the report; every detail comes from the publication’s sources.

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The Meta logo at an event; there are no official photos of the robot — Photo: Kevin Frayer/Getty Images via Engadget

What we know about Max

FormHumanoid, about 1.5m tall and 106 lb (roughly 48kg)
FaceA display that shows facial expressions, plus a built-in speaker
HandsDesigned to pick up small objects; the previously reported goal is household chores
ChipNvidia Jetson Thor
PartnerChina’s Fourier (maker of the GR-1 and GR-2 robots)
Max 2Work began in September: redesigned torso and hands, a projector, and extra sensors for stairs
Launch and priceNo date for a commercial version and no price; prototype only

Background: Bloomberg revealed last year that Meta had set up a robotics hardware team inside Reality Labs with household chores as the goal, and Meta acquired a robot-AI startup earlier this year. Max is the first tangible result of that path.

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Why it matters

The home-robot race has become a race between phone and platform companies: Tesla with Optimus, Apple reportedly studying a tabletop robot, Samsung with Ballie, and now Meta. For the Gulf, any household robot at a sane price would find immediate demand in homes that rely on domestic help and face its rising cost, and the UAE’s appetite for robot pilots (Dubai Police, museums, restaurants) makes this one of the first markets that would take it. But all of that is far off; this is a prototype with no date.

My take

The important number is not 1.5m or 48kg, it is «three months». Meta did not build the robot; it bought a ready body from Fourier and put its intelligence on top, exactly the playbook it used with Ray-Ban: the partner manufactures, Meta supplies software and distribution. That strategy worked for glasses and could work here. But relying on a Chinese partner for a product that will walk into people’s bedrooms with cameras and microphones will face political and privacy questions before it faces technical ones, in the US above all.

Sources: Engadget · The Information · tbreak

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