OpenAI disbands stand-alone robotics team as its general models start running robots
jeremyakahn · x · 2026-11-14
Per Fortune, OpenAI has disbanded its stand-alone robotics team and reassigned its researchers, saying the move aims to accelerate robotics rather than abandon it. The bet: general-purpose models like Astra 6, which has shown significant gains on robotics tasks, can directly control robots including humanoids. The robotics community is debating a potential paradigm shift in the age of powerful general AI models.
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