OpenAI dissolves standalone robotics team, folds researchers into core units

Cointime update: OpenAI has disbanded its independent robotics research team and reassigned the researchers to other divisions, moving them into the core research group led by chief research officer Mark Chen, with applied robotics and hardware teams shifting to president Greg Brockman’s applied division. The company said the change is not an exit from robotics but aims to speed development of general-purpose robots, arguing general AI models such as GPT-6 Astra can now control robots directly without dedicated robotics models.