OpenAI has begun building out its robotics team

OpenAI is best known for its AI models, which to date exist primarily on cloud servers, its website and in its apps for PCs and mobile devices.

However, the company is not limiting its ambitions to the software realm: Today on X, Caitlin Kalinowski, a member of the technical staff at OpenAI and previously head of AR glasses at Meta, posted a message announcing that the firm is hiring its first hardware robotics roles.

These include an EE sensing engineer “to help us the design sensor suite for our robots,” and a robotics mechanical design engineer to create “gears, actuators, motors and linkages for robots.”

The listings also include a description of the new effort:

“Our robotics team is focused on unlocking general-purpose robotics and pushing towards AG -level intelligence in dynamic, real-world settings. Working across the entire model stack, we integrate cutting-edge hardware and software to explore a broad ...