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Is it true that openAI has disbanded its dedicated robotics team?

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No conclusive verdict. OpenAI has disbanded its dedicated robotics team, per Fortune reporting, as the company shifts to its general frontier models running on third-party robot hardware rather than building its own robots. The move mirrors OpenAI's earlier pattern of dissolving specialized hardware efforts and betting on

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OpenAI has disbanded its dedicated robotics team
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Nov 13, 2026
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OpenAI has disbanded its dedicated robotics team, per Fortune reporting, as the company shifts to its general frontier models running on third-party robot hardware rather than building its own robots. The move mirrors OpenAI's earlier pattern of dissolving specialized hardware efforts and betting on

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