OpenAI disbands robotics team five months after relaunch, leaves empty CoRL booth
ns123abc · x · 2026-11-14
OpenAI has reportedly disbanded its robotics team just five months after Sam Altman announced OpenAI Robotics. Per Fortune, the robotics research team was folded into the main research org under Chief Research Officer Mark Chen, while applied robotics and hardware moved into the Applied organization under President Greg Brockman. The shakeup came so abruptly that OpenAI had already registered a booth at the CoRL robotics conference in Austin — but when Fortune visited booth #208, it sat empty with no OpenAI logo in sight.
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