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OpenAI disbands its robotics team as its general models start running robots
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OpenAI has disbanded its stand-alone robotics team, moving its researchers onto other teams.
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The company confirmed the reorganization when asked about it by Fortune.
A company spokesperson said that robotics remains a core part of OpenAI’s long-term vision and portrayed the reorganization as a sign of the company’s commitment to robotics, rather than a retreat from it.
OpenAI said it has reassigned its robotics research team to the company’s main research team, reporting to Chief Research Officer Mark Chen, while the applied robotics and hardware teams have been reassigned to the company’s larger Applied organization, which reports to OpenAI President Greg Brockman.
The change came recently enough that OpenAI had already registered a booth at CoRL, a top academic robotics conference in Austin, this week. Though the conference app and floor plan marked OpenAI’s spot, when Fortune visited booth #208, it sat empty with OpenAI’s logo nowhere to be seen.
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Local news from Meridan Report — Singapore
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Friday, November 13, 2026
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