Altman Official Announcement: OpenAI Formally Builds Robots, Targeting Everyone with One Machine According to Beating Monitoring, Sam Altman announced in a post on X that OpenAI Robotics is recruiting full stack hardware, operations, systems, and machine learning engineers with the goal of programming and manufacturing robots that are useful to society. The short-term direction is to build robots to assist technology workers in building infrastructure, and the long-term vision is to enable everyone to have a personal robot that can do anything. Altman confirmed in the post that the world simulation research project led by Aditya Ramesh has evolved into OpenAI Robotics over the past year, with hardware and algorithms designed together from the beginning and progressing rapidly. OpenAI President Brockman previously explained the logic behind this shift in an interview on the Big Technology Podcast: Sora's world model and core GPT inference series belong to two different branches of the technology tree, and due to limited computing power, they cannot advance simultaneously. Therefore, Sora's consumer applications were cut off and research resources were focused on robots. He also stated that robots are not yet mature enough for large-scale deployment, and the real takeoff next year will still be in the field of knowledge work. [Original link]