Fourier Intelligence / 傅利叶智能

Overview

Fourier Intelligence / 傅利叶智能 is a Chinese robotics company represented by the bounded source as moving from rehabilitation robots into humanoid products for social interaction, companionship, assistance, and possible household service.

Current Profile

The source’s central case is a reported collaboration with Meta on a roughly 1.5-meter humanoid intended for domestic tasks and as a possible physical carrier for the Muse consumer agent. The prototype is described as using Nvidia chips, imitating facial expressions, and grasping small objects with five-finger hands.

The current judgment is narrower than the demo description: Fourier contributes rehabilitation and humanoid hardware experience to a household-robot experiment, but U.S. restrictions on importing newer Chinese humanoids create testing and parts-access friction before repeatable home service or commercial scale is established.

Key Characteristics

• Chinese robotics company with a rehabilitation-robot starting point.
• Developer extending into humanoid social, companionship, and assistance scenarios.
• Reported hardware partner for Meta’s attempt to embody a consumer AI agent.
• Builder combining expressive interaction and five-finger manipulation in a human-scale prototype.
• Cross-border collaborator exposed to import restrictions and supply-chain access risk.

Evidence

• Company transition: 羽毛球价格回落，无印良品将向欧美复制中国经验 says Fourier moved from rehabilitation robots toward humanoids focused on social interaction and assisted care.
• Meta prototype: 羽毛球价格回落，无印良品将向欧美复制中国经验 reports a Meta collaboration around a roughly 1.5-meter, Nvidia-equipped household humanoid with facial expression and small-object grasping.
• Deployment constraint: 羽毛球价格回落，无印良品将向欧美复制中国经验 says U.S. restrictions on newer Chinese humanoid imports impede prototype shipment for testing and stable parts access.

Qualifications

The bounded source is a structured business-news summary, not a company announcement, engineering report, regulatory text, import record, product test, or customer deployment study. The collaboration, specifications, task capability, restriction scope, parts difficulty, product timing, and commercial intent remain source-scoped; grasping demonstrations and expressive behavior do not establish safe, reliable household service.

What Changed

• Created the entity from the reported Meta household-humanoid collaboration.

Relationships

• Meta - reported collaborator seeking a physical carrier for a consumer AI agent.
• Muse - software-agent system the source says could inhabit the robot.
• Home Service Robots - intended household-service category and reliability test.
• Humanoid Robot Commercialization - embodiment and commercialization route.
• Social Robotics in Elder Care - adjacent assistance and companionship application.
• Nvidia - reported chip supplier for the prototype.
• China and United States - company origin and cross-border testing/regulatory context.