{"id":46292,"date":"2021-07-19T12:00:18","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T09:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=46292"},"modified":"2025-09-01T15:38:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T12:38:23","slug":"openai-closes-its-robotics-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/openai-closes-its-robotics-division\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI closes its robotics division"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The non-profit OpenAI has disbanded its robotics team and halted attempts to apply artificial intelligence to physical machines. This was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=429QC4Yl-mA&#038;t=1153s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">reported<\/a> by Wojciech Zaremba, the company&#8217;s co-founder and head of the group.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He confirmed that the company has closed the division and is focusing on more promising areas of general artificial intelligence research.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cHere&#8217;s the revelation [\u2026] we recently shifted our focus at OpenAI, and I essentially disbanded the robotics group,\u201d said Zaremba.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to him, a shortage of training data is hindering robotics research. The team has not been able to gather enough information to bring the systems closer to the desired level of intelligence.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cFrom the perspective of what we aim to achieve, namely the creation of general artificial intelligence, I think that in fact some components were missing,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A representative of OpenAI <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2021\/07\/16\/openai-disbands-its-robotics-research-team\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">confirmed<\/a> the information relayed by Zaremba.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cHaving advanced the latest reinforcement learning technologies as part of our \u201cRubik&#8217;s Cube\u201d project and other initiatives, in October last year we decided not to pursue further robotics research and instead reoriented the team to other projects,\u201d the company\u2019s representatives said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>They added that they have focused on other approaches, notably reinforcement learning with human feedback.<\/p>\n<p>In late June, OpenAI and Microsoft unveiled the tool<a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/github-unveils-ai-powered-copilot-code-autocompletion-tool\"> for code auto-completion powered by artificial intelligence Copilot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In March, OpenAI stated that the language model<a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/openai-gpt-3-language-model-generates-4-5-billion-words-a-day\"> GPT-3 generates 4.5 billion words per day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog News on Telegram:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogAI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"> ForkLog AI<\/a> \u2014 all the news from the world of AI!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The non-profit OpenAI has disbanded its robotics team and halted attempts to apply artificial intelligence to physical machines. 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