Mobileye acquires Mentee Robotics: Advancing autonomous driving and humanoid robotics

CES 2026 Mobileye Acquires Humanoid Robotics Specialist

2026-01-08 From Sven Prawitz | Translated by AI 2 min Reading Time

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The automotive supplier announces the acquisition of Mentee Robotics. Mobileye now has access to humanoid robots with AI technology.

A coordinated workflow demonstrates how humanoid robots can autonomously perform real warehouse tasks safely and reliably.(Image: Mentee) — A coordinated workflow demonstrates how humanoid robots can autonomously perform real warehouse tasks safely and reliably.
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Mobileye acquires Mentee Robotics, a company specializing in AI for humanoid robotics. According to the company, the acquisition combines Mobileye's AI technology and global production expertise with Mentee's humanoid platform and AI know-how. This positions Mobileye as a provider of physical AI in autonomous driving and humanoid robotics.

The total purchase price amounts to 900 million US dollars, consisting of 612 million US dollars in cash and approximately 26 million Class A common shares of Mobileye. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2026.

First Proof-of-Concept in 2026

Mentee has developed a cost-efficient humanoid platform over the four years since its founding, designed for scalable practical application. According to Mobileye, the platform combines proprietary hardware and software design with an AI architecture based on human-robot mentoring, few-shot learning, and simulation-oriented training. Unlike systems reliant on collecting extensive real-world data or continuous remote control, Mentee's approach is designed for robots to acquire new skills over time from a few selected and natural demonstrations as well as intent recognition.

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The dexterity of MenteeBot is designed for a wide range of activities in both households and industrial warehouses.(Image: Mentee)

MenteeBot demonstrates the fully autonomous execution of a task, including scene perception, movement (navigation and locomotion), finding and locating objects (detection and localization), grasping (capturing), and manipulating objects (handling).(Image: Mentee)

The hands of MenteeBot offer a comprehensive range of motion, strength, and precision to perform delicate tasks.(Image: Mentee)

The hot-swappable battery of MenteeBot ensures seamless operation and enables round-the-clock performance for greater efficiency.(Image: Mentee)

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The first proof-of-concept implementations with customers are expected in 2026. These are to operate autonomously without remote control, with series production and commercialization planned for 2028.

The humanoid robots from Mentee offer a range of functions, including advanced scene understanding, natural command execution, end-to-end autonomous task execution without remote control, as well as reliable mobility, navigation, and safe handling of stationary objects. Development is progressing toward "few-shot generalization," which aims to enable robots to learn and perform new skills and tasks after just a few demonstrations by humans, according to the announcement.

Synergies Between Autonomy And Robotics

"Today marks a new chapter for robotics and AI in the automotive sector, as well as the beginning of Mobileye 3.0," said Amnon Shashua, President and CEO of Mobileye. "By combining Mentee's expertise in humanoid robotics with Mobileye's in autonomous vehicles and its proven ability to deploy advanced AI, we have a unique opportunity to drive the development of physical AI in robotics and autonomous vehicles on a global scale."

Mobileye sees strategic synergies through the acquisition: Mentee's advancements in image processing, speech and action technology, as well as large-scale simulations, complement Mobileye's autonomy stack. These capabilities are intended to enhance autonomous driving systems through improved generalization of long-tail scenarios, faster adaptation to new environments, and more efficient development and validation cycles.

In addition, Mobileye introduces its formal safety model Responsibility Sensitive Safety (RSS), mathematically grounded decision-making, and system-level validated redundancy architectures. These techniques are intended to form the basis for defining, verifying, and enforcing safe behavior in humanoid robots.

The Technology

The Mentee platform is based on two AI pillars: an integrated AI solution that combines advanced foundation models with motion models based on reinforcement learning, and pure simulation training with technologies that minimize the gap between simulation and reality (Sim2Real Gap). This approach reduces the reliance on extensive real-world data collection and enables efficient skill acquisition through simulation.

Mobileye now aims to support the introduction of humanoid systems in factories, warehouses, and industrial environments worldwide.

According to the company, Amnon Shashua is also the chairman, co-founder, and significant shareholder of Mentee. The subsidiary is expected to operate as an independent unit within Mobileye, it further states.

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CES 2026 Mobileye Acquires Humanoid Robotics Specialist

First Proof-of-Concept in 2026

Synergies Between Autonomy And Robotics

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