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 enough that OpenAI had already registered a booth at CoRL, a top academic robotics conference in Austin, this week. Though the conference app and floor plan marked OpenAI’s spot, when Fortune visited booth #208, it sat empty with OpenAI’s logo nowhere to be seen.
OpenAI disbands its robotics team as its general models start running robots
OpenAI moved its robotics researchers onto other teams representing new thinking about the best way to build general-purpose robots.

Key takeaways
OpenAI disbanded its robotics team, integrating it into other departments, but remains committed to robotics and developing humanoid robots.
- OpenAI reorganized its robotics team, moving researchers to other departments.
- The company still sees robotics as a core part of its long-term vision.
- OpenAI plans to demonstrate a humanoid robot by 2027.
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