- 27 robotics‑related job listings posted in the referenced week; previously 11 listings four months earlier.
- Base salary ceiling reported up to $500,000 for some roles.
- Listings include actuator designers, firmware engineers, PCB layout, ML engineers for training pipelines, and a robotics attorney role.
- Report maps listings to two operating robotics facilities and a Richmond warehouse, three‑shift teleoperation lab, Franka arms, and GELLO controllers.
- Article argues output focus is labeled training data at industrial scale rather than finished consumer robots.
- Notes OpenAI previously funded robotics startups (OpenAI Startup Fund, Figure AI) but shut internal robotics team in 2021 due to lack of real‑world demonstration data.
- Current effort positioned as solving the data shortage through in‑house collection at scale.
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