Meta has deepened its stake in the robotics intelligence race. The social networking giant has acquired Assured Robot Intelligence (ARI), Xiaolong Wang, the startup's cofounder, said in an X post on Friday. ARI is a small San Diego-based startup with about 20 employees. Meta and AIX Ventures, which was the first institutional investor to commit to ARI when it was founded last May, confirmed the news to Business Insider. Bloomberg first reported the acquisition. "We acquired Assured Robot