Artificial intelligence giant OpenAI officially announced the establishment of a Robotics division, marking the company's full expansion of its technological reach from pure software AI to embodied intelligence, aiming to connect the physical world through powerful large model foundations.

Subsequently, the company's CEO Sam Altman publicly recruited full-stack hardware, operations, systems, and machine learning engineers. Altman stated that artificial intelligence should genuinely help human life in the real world. To this end, the team has developed a clear phased implementation plan: in the short term, it will focus on developing robots that assist technical workers in building infrastructure; while the long-term vision is to provide every individual with a general-purpose personal robot that can meet various needs.

The core leader of this new team is Aditya Ramesh. As the inventor of the DALL-E series models and the main leader of the Sora video generation model, Ramesh has been leading a team focused on the "World Simulation Research Project" for the past year, which has now quickly evolved into a new robotics department. He will lead the team to enable AI to understand the workings of the physical world and grant it the ability to interact at the level of artificial general intelligence (AGI) in dynamic real environments.

Notably, the company had previously invested in several robotics startups but recently terminated related collaborations. The core disagreement lies in differences in technical approaches - some startups believe that general large models are difficult to directly adapt to robot hardware, thus insisting on developing vertically integrated end-to-end models. In response to this bottleneck, OpenAI chose to take matters into its own hands, independently developing integrated software and hardware capabilities, which also means it will face direct competition with industry rivals such as Tesla in the embodied intelligence field.