OpenAI is rebuilding its robotics division, which it shut down in 2020, with the near-term goal of using robots to help build infrastructure and the long-term vision of providing everyone with a personal general-purpose robot. The effort grew out of a world simulation research program led by Aditya Ramesh, and OpenAI is now hiring across hardware, operations, and machine learning. While Altman's ambitious end goal is likely years away, the underlying motivation may be generating valuable training data and advancing embodied AI models.
