Conference on Robot Learning, a leading annual academic venue for robot learning and embodied intelligence.
OpenAI has disbanded its robotics team roughly five months after Sam Altman publicly recruited for it, folding the group into core research under Mark Chen while Greg Brockman takes over applied robotics and hardware. The report attributes the move to GPT-6 Astra serving as a general-purpose robot brain, though it offers only qualitative claims about the model with no verifiable specifications.
At CoRL 2026, Li Fei-Fei and AMD CEO Lisa Su appeared together publicly for the first time since AMD agreed to acquire World Labs for about $8.2 billion in an all-stock deal. The conversation covered AMD's robotics strategy, the limits of end-to-end foundation models and academia's compute shortage; Li will become AMD EVP and chief scientist reporting to Su, with the deal expected to close by year-end.