OpenAI reassigns robotics researchers to other teams
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OpenAI is moving its robotics researchers into other teams: the researchers join the main research organization under Chief Research Officer Mark Chen, while the applied robotics and hardware teams move under Greg Brockman's Applied organization, Fortune reported. The reorganization reflects the company's apparent bet that general-purpose models can control robots directly, rather than relying on specialized robotics models. In an Nvidia study cited in the reporting, an agent powered by GPT-6 Astra reached a 74.8 percent success rate on simulated robotics tasks, compared with 51 percent for the best specialized models; on the StationeryBench benchmark, Astra fully completed 7 of 100 tasks while Ai2's MolmoAct2 completed none. Specialized robotics models may still hold advantages in cost, reliability, speed and energy use, and OpenAI reportedly aims for a first public robot demo in 2027.
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OpenAI is reassigning its robotics researchers into other teams, moving them under Chief Research Officer Mark Chen and Greg Brockman's Applied organization, Fortune reported. The company appears to believe general-purpose models such as GPT-6 Astra can control robots directly: in an Nvidia study an Astra-powered agent reached a 74.8 percent success rate on simulated robotics tasks versus 51 percent for the best specialized models, and on the StationeryBench benchmark Astra fully completed 7 of 100 tasks while Ai2's MolmoAct2 completed none. Specialized robotics models may still hold advantages in cost, reliability, speed and energy use, and OpenAI reportedly targets a first public robot demo for 2027.
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