New OpenAI job listings reveal the company’s robotics plans

OpenAI disbanded Its robotics division. Then, it Bring it back. Now, with a social media post detailing its hardware director and a newly released job description, OpenAI is revealing more about its plans for a revitalized team.

In a post on Friday X, Caitlin Kalinowski, who has joined OpenAI will take hardware lead from Matter’s AR glasses division last November, said That OpenAI will build its own robots — complete with a custom sensor suite.

In the post, Kalinowski spotlights new OpenAI robotics job listings with additional information.

According to the listing, OpenAI’s robotics team will focus on “general-purpose,” “adaptive” and “versatile” robots that can operate with human-like intelligence in “dynamic,” “real-world” settings. OpenAI plans to develop new sensors and computational components for its robotics, which will be powered by AI models the company is developing internally.

“Working across the entire model stack, we integrate cutting-edge hardware and software to explore a broad range of robotic form factors,” read one of the list. “We strive to seamlessly blend high-level AI capabilities with the physical limitations of physical robotic platforms.”

one list Means that OpenAI wants to hire contract workers to test its robotic prototypes. Another suggests that the company may have robots organs.

Information Recently reported That OpenAI has explored building its own humanoid robots.

Whatever form they take, OpenAI’s robots — if all goes according to plan — will someday reach “full-scale production,” a description read. OpenAI seems bullish on the effort. In other In the listing, the company says it’s “seeking an engineer with experience designing mechanical systems for high volume (1M+) purposes.”

Robotics is a hot commodity. The sector raised $6.4 billion from VCs last year, According to At Crunchbase, it illustrates the interest in a technology with potentially endless applications.

Companies prefer Brilliant machine And Collaborative Roboticswhich develops software and systems for factory manufacturing, seems to have successfully found a niche. So there are firms like Carbon Roboticswhich is building an AI-enabled weeding robot, and Bear Roboticswhich enables a mobile robot to carry trays and packages.

But humanoid robots have attracted the most publicity.

X1 And imageBoth have OpenAI backing, trying to create general-purpose robots that move more or less like humans. The challenges are daunting, but these companies claim that technology has reached the point where mass-produced humanoid robotic systems are a realistic near-term goal.

D a lot disappointment Recent robotics history suggests that would be easier said than done.

Robots aren’t the only hardware project that OpenAI is actively working on. Legendary former Apple product designer Jony Ive sure Last year he was collaborating with OpenAI on a new device It is called designing A custom chip to run its AI model.

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