According to media reports, OpenAI is rebooting its robotics team.

The team was disbanded in 2020 for a variety of reasons, but as investment in AI robots heats up, OpenAI has decided to enter the robotics space again.

A6140-9199-00058 According to people familiar with the matter, OpenAI is currently actively recruiting research engineers to rebuild the once-disbanded robotics team.

Although the company has not publicly disclosed the specifics of its own robotics, in the latest hiring announcement, OpenAI makes it clear that the new employees will be “one of the first members of this new team.”

Over the past year, OpenAI, through its internal venture fund, has actively invested in several companies focused on developing humanoid robotics technology.

A6140-9199-00058 In February, OpenAI hinted at plans to reboot the robotics team at a fundraiser for Figure AI, and released a video showing its robots’ basic speech and reasoning skills supported by a large multimodal model trained by OpenAI.

“We’ve always planned to return to robotics, and working with Figure AI has shown us a path to explore what humanoid robots can achieve when driven by high-performance multimodal models,” said Peter Welinder, vice president of OpenAI and former member of the robotics team.