The title of this article misleadingly uses the word "robots." In fact, no robots make an appearance in this article. Only "bots."Robots sense their environments and perform physical actions, to move themselves or change the state of the world. "Bots," like the ones discussed in this article, face none of the sensing, actuation, and control challenges of robots. The problem of embodied intelligence is much harder than text or image generation, and we have a long way to go to approach human flexibility and capability along nearly every dimension. OpenAI actually once worked on robotics before abandoning it for easier projects like ChatGPT and DALL-E.

The title of this article misleadingly uses the word "robots." In fact, no robots make an appearance in this article. Only "bots."Robots sense their environments and perform physical actions, to move themselves or change the state of the world. "Bots," like the ones discussed in this article, face none of the sensing, actuation, and control challenges of robots. The problem of embodied intelligence is much harder than text or image generation, and we have a long way to go to approach human flexibility and capability along nearly every dimension. OpenAI actually once worked on robotics before abandoning it for easier projects like ChatGPT and DALL-E.

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