Sources with knowledge of the company’s efforts also say OpenAI is recruiting people to work specifically on humanoid robots, or robots with a partial or full human form.
One source who works in cutting-edge robotics says the company has begun training AI algorithms that are better able to make sense of the physical world and that could empower robots to navigate and perform tasks.
A number of recent hires suggest that OpenAI’s robot efforts are now accelerating.
For instance, Chengshu Li joined OpenAI in June 2025 from Stanford University, where he worked on a number of robotics projects, including the development of a benchmark designed to measure the abilities of humanoid robots capable of performing a wide range of household chores.
Li’s dissertation concerns the development of benchmarks and focuses on robots with a partly humanoid form, which has two arms but wheels instead of legs.
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