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OpenAI's robotics job postings are surging six years after it shut its robotics team
A screenshot of OpenAI's robotics hiring curve took 417 upvotes on r/singularity, with the poster noting OpenAI closed its original robotics division in 2020, making this a re-entry rather than an expansion. The thread reads it as humanoids becoming the next race between OpenAI, Tesla, Figure and Google DeepMind. The counter-argument in the comments is specific and worth carrying: a humanoid has 200-300 degrees of freedom against a self-driving car's two, in unconstrained environments, with far higher consequences for error. Single-source and screenshot-based, so treat the trend line as directional rather than exact.
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