Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, publicly announced on June 1st through a social media platform his company's entry into the robotics field and officially released job postings for the OpenAI Robotics team, widely recruiting full-stack hardware, operations, systems, and machine learning engineers. This move marks the resumption of the company's physical-world embodied intelligence strategy after previously shutting down its early robotics business, aiming to expand its leading large model capabilities from the digital world to the real physical world.

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Altman pointed out that the core value of artificial intelligence lies in providing substantial help to humans in the real world. In terms of development strategy, OpenAI has adopted a phased approach: in the short term, the company will focus on developing specific function robots that can assist technical workers in building future infrastructure; in the long-term vision, OpenAI aims to create versatile personal robots that can meet diverse customization needs.

Currently, OpenAI has begun forming a research and development team with highly integrated hardware and algorithms to tackle challenges related to perception and manipulation of robots in real physical environments.

As a trendsetter in the artificial intelligence industry, OpenAI's renewed focus on the robotics field not only confirms the industry trend of deep integration between multimodal large models and embodied intelligence (Embodied AI), but also will reshape the market landscape dominated by traditional robot hardware manufacturers. With breakthroughs in logical reasoning and natural language interaction by large models, the involvement of software ecosystems will greatly accelerate the process of intelligent robots moving from industrial manufacturing to long-tail physical application scenarios, driving efficiency transformation in global infrastructure construction and the personal labor market.