The OpenAI company, which gave the world ChatGPT, is increasingly mastering robotics technologies.
Thus, if you check the vacancies and personnel appointments, global changes are currently taking place in the company.
Thus, OpenAI is assembling a team that will work on control algorithms for complex robotic systems – including humanoid platforms.
According to experts familiar with the situation, OpenAI is looking for engineers and researchers who have skills in working with artificial intelligence algorithms that can “understand” the physical world. The main task is to teach robots to act in real conditions: to recognize objects, navigate in space and perform everyday tasks that seem familiar to humans, but remain a challenge for machines.
One of the topics of OpenAI is telecontrol. In this way, a person will control the robot directly, after which the humanoid robot learns to independently repeat after the person and remembers the actions. Simulators such as Nvidia Isaac will be used for this.
New names in the team OpenAI
In June 2025, Chengshu Li, who previously worked as a researcher at Stanford University, joined OpenAI. His work was devoted to creating benchmarks for assessing the capabilities of humanoid robots. Li studied systems with anthropomorphic arms, but on a wheeled chassis instead of legs – an approach that combines the flexibility of manipulators with stability and speed of movement.
According to open sources, several more researchers from other laboratories related to the development of humanoid machines have joined the company. Moreover, one of the professors in this field reported that his student recently received an offer from OpenAI. All this indicates a systematic expansion of the team.
Mechanics and possible production
It is curious that the new vacancies concern not only programming and AI. OpenAI is looking for mechanical engineers who can develop prototypes with motion and touch sensors, as well as experience working with projects designed for mass production – up to millions of units. Experts believe that this may indicate either the company’s plans to create its own robot, or to develop universal solutions for training and controlling existing platforms.
Will OpenAI have its own robot?
The company’s management has not yet given official comments. It is unknown whether OpenAI will limit itself to creating algorithms for partners or will go further – to developing its own machines. However, the wording of the vacancies sounds ambitious: the robotics team “works on general-purpose robotics and brings artificial intelligence closer to a level that allows it to work in real, dynamic environments.
It is obvious that OpenAI considers robotics as an important direction for future development. If the company can truly combine powerful AI models with physical robots, it will be a step toward creating systems that can not only generate text or images, but also perform real-world tasks in the world around us.
OpenAI has launched a new paid plan for ChatGPT in India called ChatGPT Go, which the company hopes will make its AI assistant more accessible to a wider audience in a country with a huge user base.
