OpenAI has disbanded its standalone robotics team and redistributed researchers across core departments, Fortune reported. Robotics researchers have been merged into the main research team led by Chief Research Officer Mark Chen, while applied robotics and hardware teams now fall under the Applied division headed by President Greg Brockman. The company stated the restructuring aims to accelerate robotics R&D using general-purpose models such as GPT-6 Astra, rather than signaling an exit from the field. OpenAI's target for its first public humanoid robot demonstration remains set for 2027.