The ChatGPT moment for robotics was…ChatGPT itself
eigenron · x · 2026-10-24
A wry industry observation: robotics has been waiting for its "ChatGPT moment," but that moment already happened — it was ChatGPT itself.
The point captures what's actually happening in the field: rather than arriving as some purpose-built robot foundation model, the breakthrough is general-purpose LLMs like ChatGPT being plugged in as robot brains for task planning, semantic understanding, and tool use. The generic chatbot turned out to be the driving force behind robotics' capability leap.
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