For a second I got excited that openai was actually doing cool stuff again.
(needs a tag to be 2017)
Why did they (OpenAI) stopped showing robotics related progress and demos, this one is seven years old...
If your disappointed by this being from 2017, check out some actual recent advancements (June 17 2025) by a different company https://generalistai.com/blog.html
This needs a (2017).
How much is Boston dynamics worth ? Seems like that would have been a better deal than ive’s io.
I was going to say: ”this looks quite lame compared to stuff that's coming out these days” not then realized it's from 2017.
A lot has changed in robotics since then...
Man I saw the Fetch with its busted up gripper plastics and shocked to think they hadn't mothballed it and that it still worked!
Well the whole video gives a 2000 era apocalypse scenario movie vibe. Is this just OpenAI trying to fit a square peg into a round hole? Do we really need general intelligence robots at this point? This is more poc than anything but still
finally giving the white collar people a break i see...
Now that OpenAI’s CPO has been sworn into the actual US Army, how long until they are sending the current improved versions of these things through basic training?
Previous discussion 16-may-2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14350705