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OpenAI Is Rebooting Its Robotics TeamAfter disbanding its efforts to build a general purpose robot in 2020, the AI juggernaut is embarking on a new attempt to supply models to other companies aiming to build robots of their own.
With investment into AI-powered robotics heating up , OpenAI is formally relaunching its previously abandoned robotics team, Forbes has learned.
The company is currently hiring research engineers to rebuild the team, which it had shuttered in 2020, according to three sources. OpenAI has yet to publicly announce the details of its homegrown robotics efforts, but in a recent job listing explains that new hires would be "one of the first members of the team." A source in position to know told Forbes the group has only existed for about two months.
OpenAI robotics research is resuming, applying generative AI to tasks such as manipulation. | Credit: OpenAI
OpenAI LLC, which is best known for ChatGPT, is restarting its robotics research group. The San Francisco-based company has been a pioneer in generative artificial intelligence and is returning to robotics after a three-year break.
This comes as no surprise, since The Robot Report has reported on several robotics companies working with ChatGPT and large language models (LLMs) over the past year.
The reboot comes after the company shut down its robotics group in July 2021 . That shutdown was prior to all of the interest in generative AI after OpenAI released ChatGPT to the world.
⁘We're looking for people who have a strong research background, in addition to experience shipping AI applications,⁘ said the company.
OpenAI has also participated as an investor in humanoid developer Figure AI's Series B fundraising earlier this year. The Figure AI investment indicated that robotics is clearly on the radar for OpenAI.
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