Couldn't sleep in the early hours, so I scrolled through the news
Came across a pretty vivid piece of gossip 🤖
OpenAI has disbanded its standalone robotics team
The researchers have been moved into Chief Research Officer Mark Chen's team
The applications and hardware people have been moved under President Brockman
Even more vivid is
At CoRL, the top robotics conference in Austin this week
Its booth No.
#208 was still on the conference map
But when people checked in person, it was completely empty
The official line is that they haven't given up
It's that general-purpose large models can now d