Meta built a humanoid called Max with Fourier Robotics
Nothing has been shown publicly, no video, no task, no autonomy claim.
Meta has built a prototype humanoid robot called Max in partnership with Chinese hardware startup Fourier Robotics, according to a report relayed by Lukas Ziegler. He posted the details and credited the original reporting to The Information and @jyoti_mann1.
Meta is building a physical body for its AI agent, the same way a phone is a physical body for an operating system.
The specs, as Ziegler lists them, are short. Max was built in roughly three months. It weighs around 106 pounds, about 48kg. Meta is already building a second version. Meta has no plans to sell the units. Internally it is framed as the physical embodiment of Meta's Muse agent, aimed at household tasks.
What has not been shown
No video. No task. No claim about how much the robot can do on its own. This is a set of numbers passed along from a press report, not a demo, and nobody outside Meta and Fourier has seen Max move.
Why Fourier
Ziegler calls Fourier one of China's most capable humanoid hardware companies, pointing to its bipedal platforms, actuator supply chains and manufacturing experience. He says he has met the team a couple of times and was impressed with the robots, and that the company's roots are in exoskeletons and rehab robotics.
His read on the partnership is that buying hardware expertise is the fastest way for Meta to have something physical to work with while its own AI and software teams build the intelligence layer. He frames Max as a home robot rather than a factory machine, and compares the move to Amazon's acquisition of Fauna Robotics earlier this year.
The pattern Ziegler is pointing at
His wider argument is that the big AI labs are converging on the same answer. He notes that Sam Altman has said he will reveal a humanoid robot in 2027. Meta, on this reading, is doing the same thing from a different angle, pairing an agent it already has with a body someone else can build quickly.
Treat the framing as Ziegler's and the facts as secondhand. The 48kg figure, the three month build and the second version are all from the report he is relaying, and Meta has not published anything about Max itself. The thing worth watching is whether a second version shows up with footage attached, because a humanoid with no video is still just a spec sheet.
Sound like you were at the demo
One email a day. Under three minutes. The demos, the deployments and the part the press release left out.