OpenAI dissolved its standalone robotics team, moving researchers into core research and applied robotics and hardware personnel into applications.

OpenAI confirmed the dissolution of its independent robotics research team and the reassignment of personnel, according to Financial_Express’s coverage citing Fortune. Robotics researchers moved into the main research organization led by Chief Research Officer Mark Chen, while applied robotics and hardware teams moved into the applications organization led by President Greg Brockman.

The company said the reorganization was not a withdrawal from robotics and reaffirmed its commitment to general-purpose robots. Its stated approach is to use general-purpose AI models for robot control rather than develop a separate, dedicated robotics-model track.

A fuller supplied report says OpenAI cited robotics capabilities in frontier general-purpose models, including GPT-6 Astra. It also described an NVIDIA study in which an Astra-powered agent achieved 74.8% success in simulated robotic manipulation tests, compared with a previously reported 51% result for a specialized robotics model on that leaderboard.

Those figures concern a reported simulation benchmark, not physical-robot deployment performance. The same report noted industry concerns about general-purpose models’ operating speed and dependence on cloud connectivity, but supplied no physical-system latency measurements or production operating data.