OpenAI is back to building robots, hiring engineers to make AI help in the real world

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, posted on X that the company is hiring hardware, operations, and machine learning engineers to restart its robotics project. The team is led by Aditya Ramesh and focuses on combining robot hardware with AI research.

Altman said the short-term goal is to use robots to help skilled workers build infrastructure. In the long run, OpenAI wants everyone to have their own robot to help with daily tasks. This move shows OpenAI is expanding from software into real-world AI.