OpenAI’s robotics team is now being expanded.

The most well-known component of OpenAI is its AI models, which are currently mostly found on cloud servers, its website, and its PC and mobile apps.

The business is not, however, restricting its goals to the software industry: OpenAI is hiring its first hardware robotics positions, according to a message posted on X today by Caitlin Kalinowski, a member of the technical team and former head of AR glasses at Meta.

Among them are an EE sensing engineer who will assist us in designing the sensor suite for our robots, as well as a robotics mechanical design engineer who will build “gear, actuators, motors, and linkages for them.”

The new endeavor is described in the listings as well:

“Our robotics team is committed to advancing AG-level intelligence in dynamic, real-world environments and unlocking general-purpose robotics.” We combine state-of-the-art hardware and software to investigate a wide variety of robotic form factors, working throughout the full model stack. Our goal is to smoothly combine advanced AI capabilities with the limitations of physical reality.

A little over two months ago, Kalinowski herself declared that she had been hired by OpenAI “to lead robotics and consumer hardware.”

According to reports, OpenAI has collaborated with former Apple lead designer Jony Ive on hardware projects. The company has also joined with robotics startup Figure to supply the models that drive Figure’s humanoid robots.

The company’s most significant and costly investment to date in expanding its own robotics sector, however, is indicated by Kalinowski’s recent post and job postings, which may eventually put it in competition with Figure.

It wouldn’t be a novel position for OpenAI, though, as it is also vying for market share and financial capital from Microsoft.