Mobileye, an automotive chipmaker, will acquire AI humanoid robot company Mentee Robotics for $900 million, SiliconANGLE reported on Monday.

Mentee Robotics is a startup founded in Israel in 2022. It was co-founded by Mobileye founder Amnon Shashua, Mentee CEO and former Facebook AI Research director Professor Lior Wolf, and machine learning researcher Professor Shai Shalev-Shwartz.

Mentee Robotics aims to develop intelligent, general-purpose humanoid robots that can operate in real-world environments such as warehouses and homes.

Mentee is developing a humanoid robot series called MenteeBot. It plans to deploy the robots in logistics hubs or service fields where existing industrial robots show limitations.

Mobileye plans to expand its business into physical AI through the acquisition. It plans to develop AI systems with contextual understanding, intent inference, natural interaction with humans and economic scalability. Mentee is targeting a proof of concept for its first customers in 2026 and is pursuing commercialization in 2028.

Mobileye CEO Amnon Shashua said, "This acquisition is an important milestone that opens a new chapter in robotics and automotive AI while marking the start of the Mobileye 3.0 era."