OpenAI is ramping up its robotics efforts, with CEO Sam Altman announcing active recruitment for engineers specializing in hardware, systems, operations, and machine learning.
OpenAI has launched a dedicated robotics division, recruiting hardware, ML, systems, and ops engineers to design and manufacture physical robots for real-world use, evolving from its world simulation research program. The move signals a strategic pivot from pure software AI to embodied intelligence, entering a hardware race where China (Unitree, Booster) and South Korea already lead on cost and scale — a factor to watch for enterprise automation and supply chain roadmaps.
OpenAI aims to build robots that can assist people in the real world
Jun 01, 2026
01:23 pm
What's the storyOpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is expanding its horizons beyond software and conversational AI into physical robotics.
CEO Sam Altman has announced a major recruitment drive for robotics engineers to build robots that can assist people in the real world.
Sam Altman's OpenAI just made robotics its next frontier and it's hiring to prove it — TFN
OpenAI starts with infrastructure robots but aims for "everyone having a personal robot doing anything they need"
OpenAI wants you to have a personal robot; starts hiring for robotics division - The Economic Times
OpenAI Robotics ramps up hiring to build general-purpose robots
Sam Altman is quietly backing a stealth startup that's building software for robots and cars
OpenAI has discussed adding Citigroup, JPMorgan to bank lineup for IPO - The Economic Times
Sam Altman spent years making AI useful for people who sit at desks. Now he wants to make it useful for people who build things.
OpenAI is building a robotics team again, five years after shutting the division down. The team grew out of the world simulation…
The robotics division grew out of OpenAI's world simulation research program, led by Aditya Ramesh, the researcher also known for…
OpenAI is hiring robotics engineers in San Francisco with salaries up to $310K as it pushes to build general-purpose robots with…
Wired reports that OpenAI is stepping back into robotics, with new hiring pointing toward work on humanoid machines.
The company behind ChatGPT is putting together a team capable of developing algorithms to control robots and appears to be hiring…
