OpenAI Timeline

Events

• 2026-05-10 - Capability - OpenAI robotics hiring points to scaled data-acquisition and workcell operations - OpenAI listed a Robotics Technical Program Manager role focused on robotic data acquisition in San Francisco. The posting describes DAQ stations, robotic platforms, sensing systems, operator tooling, and data pipelines for model training and evaluation. The… - source: openai.com
• 2026-02-05 - Demonstration - Ginkgo and OpenAI run 36,000 autonomous lab experiments - The system linked GPT-5 with Ginkgo's Reconfigurable Automation Carts and Catalyst software to design, execute and analyse experiments with minimal human involvement. Across six iterative cycles, the autonomous laboratory processed more than 580 384-well… - source: prnewswire.com
• 2026-01-15 - Market Signal - OpenAI launches U.S. AI supply-chain RFP covering advanced robotics inputs - OpenAI launched a U.S. manufacturing RFP to identify domestic suppliers for broader AI infrastructure. The RFP explicitly includes critical inputs for advanced robotics, including gearboxes, motors, and power electronics. The row is a supply-chain signal… - source: openai.com
• 2019-10-15 - Research Publication - OpenAI trains robotic hand to solve a Rubik's Cube with Automatic Domain Randomization - OpenAI trained neural networks to solve a Rubik's Cube with a human-like robotic hand using reinforcement learning in simulation. The project introduced Automatic Domain Randomization to create progressively harder simulated environments for sim-to-real… - source: openai.com
• 2018-07-30 - Research Publication - OpenAI trains Dactyl robotic hand system for dexterous manipulation - OpenAI introduced Dactyl, a system that trains a Shadow Dexterous Hand entirely in simulation and transfers the policy to real hardware. The work used the same general-purpose reinforcement learning system behind OpenAI Five to manipulate objects into target… - source: openai.com