Caitlin Kalinowski, who previously led hardware for Meta AR glasses (including Orion), has joined OpenAI to lead the robotics and consumer hardware team. joined. In her new role, Caitlin will focus on OpenAI’s robotics work and partnerships to help bring AI to the physical world.
Kalinowski noted in his LinkedIn post that artificial intelligence is the most exciting engineering frontier in technology right now, and he’s excited to be a part of OpenAI’s robotics and consumer hardware team.
I’m delighted to share that I’m joining @OpenAI to lead robotics and consumer hardware!
In my new role, I will initially focus on OpenAI’s robotics work and partnerships to help bring AI into the physical world and unlock its benefits for humanity. pic.twitter.com/rRDliUmO6y
— Caitlin Kalinowski (@kalinowski007) November 4, 2024
Kalinowski was a member of Apple’s Mac hardware design team before leading various AR/VR hardware teams at Meta. He was also responsible for the design of various MacBooks for about six years.
In 2017, OpenAI had a robotics team working on both hardware and associated software. Later, OpenAI disbanded its hardware team to focus on other AI software, including large language models. Earlier this year, OpenAI recruited a robotics software team from other companies to help with robotic hardware.
Earlier this year, OpenAI even participated in a funding round for humanoid robotics company Figure. Hiring Kalinowski along with robotics engineers and investing in Figure underscore OpenAI’s clear interest in robotics.
Source: www.technopat.net
