Mobileye Acquires Mentee Robotics to Expand Physical AI Capabilities

• Mobileye will acquire Mentee Robotics for $900 million to unify core AI systems across autonomous driving and humanoid robotics.
• The deal combines simulation-led training, custom hardware, and safety-first autonomy under a shared physical AI platform.

Mobileye has announced that it has agreed to acquire Mentee Robotics for $900 million in cash and stock to expand its presence in physical AI. Mentee’s humanoid platform and AI software will be combined with Mobileye’s production infrastructure and autonomy stack. The goal is to accelerate commercialization in both autonomous vehicles and humanoid robotics. The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2026 and was approved by Mobileye’s board and its largest shareholder, Intel.

Mentee Robotics has developed a third-generation, vertically integrated humanoid robot built for autonomous operation without teleoperation. Its platform is based on two core AI pillars: foundation models paired with reinforcement learning for motion, and simulation-only training that reduces the gap between virtual and real-world performance. Mentee also designs its own critical hardware, including proprietary actuators, precision motor drivers, tactile robotic hands, and hot-swappable batteries which support scalability, modularity, and 24/7 uptime. The system is engineered for few-shot learning, enabling rapid task adaptation from just a few human demonstrations.

In the acquisition announcement, Mobileye says that it sees strong strategic alignment between Mentee’s robotics platform and its own AI capabilities in autonomous vehicles. Mentee’s advances in intent-aware planning, simulation, and generalization will be integrated into Mobileye’s autonomy stack, helping adapt to new environments and reduce validation cycles. Mobileye also plans to apply its formal safety models and redundancy architectures, originally built for road safety, to humanoid systems operating near people and equipment.

Mentee will operate independently within Mobileye, with pilot deployments set for 2026 and full-scale production aimed for 2028, targeting real-world, autonomous use.

🌀 Tom’s Take:

At their core, humanoid robots and autonomous vehicles face the same challenge: acting safely and intelligently in a human-centered world. Unifying the tech stack across both makes strategic and technical sense.

Source: Mobileye