OpenAI Engineer: Cheap Open-Source Robot Arms + Agents Could Be the Next 3D-Printer Moment
Scobleizer · x · 2026-09-12
cdngdev, an engineer at OpenAI, argues that cheap open-source robot arms plugged into AI agents could become the next '3D-printer moment' — low-cost open hardware spreading first, then ignited by a software ecosystem. The take was shared by TheHumanoidLabs.
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