{"id":497888,"date":"2026-01-07T02:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T02:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/497888\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T02:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T02:30:12","slug":"mobileye-to-acquire-humanoid-robotics-startup-mentee-for-900-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/497888\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobileye to acquire humanoid robotics startup Mentee for $900 million"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">LAS VEGAS, Jan 6 (Reuters) &#8211; Mobileye Global on Tuesday said it would acquire humanoid robotics startup Mentee Robotics for about $900 million, as the \u200bIsraeli self-driving technology firm bets on what it sees as the \u200cnext frontier of <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/ai\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:artificial intelligence;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">artificial intelligence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The deal highlights the overlap between autonomous driving and robotics, where similar sensing, \u200cperception and decision-making technologies underpin the emerging field of embodied AI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Interest in humanoid robotics, in particular, is surging, driven by the idea that human-like forms can better adapt to existing warehouses, factories and complex settings, helping to ease labor shortages and \u2060boost productivity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Intel spun out its \u200ccomputer vision business RealSense last year to speed expansion into robotics. It also remains the largest shareholder in Mobileye with about \u200da 23% stake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Amnon Shashua, who serves as the CEO of Mobileye, cofounded Mentee Robotics and is the startup&#8217;s co-CEO.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Mentee raised about $21 million in a funding round in March, valuing \u200bthe startup at roughly $162 million, according to PitchBook data. The company counts Cisco \u200cand Samsung&#8217;s VC arms among its investors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/quote\/TSLA\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:Tesla;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tesla<\/a>, Figure AI, Agility Robotics and several Chinese startups are among the companies racing to develop two-legged robots capable of performing a wide range of tasks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Tesla CEO Elon Musk expects humanoid robots to become the company&#8217;s largest business in the long term.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">The deal, announced at the CES \u2060technology show in Las Vegas, brings together Mobileye&#8217;s \u200bsoftware, sensing and safety systems for self-driving \u200bcars with Mentee&#8217;s development of general-purpose humanoid robots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Mentee Robotics says it bypasses the need for massive real-world data collection to train the \u200drobot by transforming a \u2060single human demonstration into millions of virtual repetitions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">First proof-of-concept deployments with customers are expected in 2026, with series production and commercialization targeted for 2028.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">It \u2060added that the transaction, subject to customary closing conditions, is expected to close in the first \u200cquarter of 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">(Reporting by Akash Sriram in Bengaluru and Abhirup Roy \u200cin Las Vegas; Editing by Vijay Kishore)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS, Jan 6 (Reuters) &#8211; Mobileye Global on Tuesday said it would acquire humanoid robotics startup Mentee&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":497889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[223764,691,738,68606,11510,223763,223762,819,158,174707,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-497888","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-agility-robotics","9":"tag-ai","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-autonomous-driving","12":"tag-humanoid-robots","13":"tag-mentee-robotics","14":"tag-mobileye","15":"tag-startup","16":"tag-technology","17":"tag-tesla-ceo-elon-musk","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115851468664248717","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}