Company profile
OpenAI
OpenAI develops general-purpose AI models and systems, with robotics work focused on applying advanced models to physical tasks. Its robotics efforts inclu...
Facts
- Segment
- FOUNDATION_MODELS
- Country
- United States
- Headquarters
- San Francisco
- Founded
- 2015
- Website
- https://openai.com/
About OpenAI
OpenAI develops general-purpose artificial-intelligence models and has conducted robotics research on learning physical manipulation. Its Dactyl work trained control policies in simulation and transferred them to a Shadow Dexterous Hand for in-hand object reorientation, later extending the approach to a Rubik's Cube.
This work forms a historical research lineage; OpenAI does not currently offer a branded robot product. The robotics relevance lies in reinforcement learning, domain randomisation, vision and sim-to-real transfer applied to physical systems.
Market context
ENABLEMENT
Summary
Type: Robot AI company
Core: Foundation models
Function: Research
Audience: AI labs
Research, Articles and recent verified events
- OpenAI robotics hiring points to scaled data-acquisition and workcell operations — 2026-05-10
- Ginkgo and OpenAI run 36,000 autonomous lab experiments — 2026-02-05
- OpenAI launches U.S. AI supply-chain RFP covering advanced robotics inputs — 2026-01-15
- OpenAI trains robotic hand to solve a Rubik's Cube with Automatic Domain Randomization — 2019-10-15
- OpenAI trains Dactyl robotic hand system for dexterous manipulation — 2018-07-30