Golden Finance reports that in the past year, OpenAI has renewed its interest in robots: investing in startups developing robot hardware and software, such as Figure and Physical Intelligence, and restarting the internal robot software team that was disbanded four years ago. Now, OpenAI may take that interest to the next level. The company recently considered developing a humanoid robot, according to two people with direct knowledge of the discussions. Don't get too excited, though: Any potential humanoid robots appear to be a lower priority for OpenAI than many of its other technologies and products, such as its acclaimed inference models and tools that help automate various software engineering projects, one of the people said. and agents analyzing tasks. Yet the fact that OpenAI is even considering developing humanoid robots underscores its growing ambitions to branch out into everything from search and web browsers to server chips and data center planning.