Exclusive: OpenAI disbands its stand-alone robotics team as its general models start running robots

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OpenAI moved its robotics researchers onto other teams. The company said the change represented new thinking about the best way to make progress towards general-purpose robots.

OpenAI has disbanded its stand-alone robotics team, moving its researchers onto other teams.The company confirmed the reorganization when asked about it by Fortune. A company spokesperson said that robotics remains a core part of OpenAI’s long-term vision and portrayed the reorganization as a sign of the company’s commitment to robotics, rather than a retreat from it.OpenAI said it has reassigned its robotics research team to the company’s main research team, reporting to Chief Research Officer Mark Chen, while the applied robotics and hardware teams have been reassigned to the company’s larger Applied organization, which reports to OpenAI President Greg Brockman.The change came recently…

OpenAI had a robotics team in its early days but wound it down in 2020, with cofounder Wojciech Zaremba later citing limited robot data and a more efficient path toward artificial general intelligence (AGI)—the human-like AI that has been OpenAI’s goal since its founding—through other methods. In particular, OpenAI became increasingly devoted to training ultra-large language models on vast datasets of human-written text. This is the approach that eventually yielded the company’s breakthrough product ChatGPT in late 2022.OpenAI rebuilt a stand alone robotics team in 2024, announcing a partnership with the startup Figure to develop AI models for humanoid robots.

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