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Lerrel Pinto is the co-founder and CEO of Assured Robot Intelligence, which was acquired by Meta in May 2026.
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Tiny robot policy beats OpenVLA-OFT by 18% using just 0.7% of its parameters
arXivpositiveJul 24, 2026
“Co-author of 'Patch Policy' research on robot control using dense visual representations from Vision Transformers.”
Meta is moving into humanoid robots
TechCrunchpositiveMay 4, 2026
“Co-founded ARI, acquired by Meta for humanoid robotics; previously taught at NYU and co-founded Fauna Robotics before Amazon acquisition.”