Autonomous vehicle vendor Mobileye is joining a growing list of vendors getting into the humanoid robot business after it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Mentee Robotics Ltd., a vertically integrated humanoid robot company.
Under the $900 million deal, the combination would use Mobileye’s AI technology and global production experience with Mentee’s humanoid platform and deep AI technology. The machines would be used for both autonomous driving and humanoid robotics.
Mobileye said that it is seeing traction for vehicle autotomy and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) technology. The acquisition will provide a foundation for general-purpose robots designed to operate alongside humans, the company added.
“Today marks a new chapter for robotics and automotive AI, and the beginning of Mobileye 3.0,” said Amnon Shashua, president and CEO of Mobileye. “By combining Mentee’s breakthroughs in humanoid robotics with Mobileye’s expertise in automotive autonomy, and its proven ability to productize advanced AI, we have a unique opportunity to lead the evolution of physical AI across robotics and autonomous vehicles on a global scale.”
Humanoid robots
Additionally, the acquisition will accelerate Mentee’s strategy of proof-of-concept robots that will operate autonomously without teleoperation with first deployments expected later in 2026. Series production and commercialization are targeted for 2028.
Mobileye said the Mentee robots combine in-house hardware and software with AI architecture built around:
- Human-to-robot mentoring
- Few-shot learning
- Simulation-first training
This will allow the robots to acquire skills from natural demonstrations and intent cues over time for safer interactions with humans and objects while still being efficient.
The humanoids reportedly will include out-of-the-box functionality such as integration of advanced scene understanding and natural instruction following, end-to-end autonomous task execution without teleoperation and reliable locomotion, navigation and safe manipulation of rigid objects.
