Inside OpenAI's renewed push into robotics

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• OpenAI quietly scaled its robotics project over the past year.
• Around 100 workers collect data around the clock to teach robots how to perform household tasks.
• OpenAI previously explored robotics, but shut down its last program in 2020.

Last year, Sam Altman posited that the world hadn't yet had its "humanoid robots moment" — but, he said, "it's coming." In the background, his AI company has been gearing up to make that happen.