Openai may plan to go to the hardware space and manufacture artificial intelligence (AI) equipment, including humanoid robots. The San Francisco -based AI firm filed a trademark application with the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) last week and listed a large number of consumer gadgets that the company could make in the near future. The filing AI chipset, the enhanced reality (AR) and the virtual reality (VR) platforms as well as the end-to-end and cloud-to-edge solutions for software development.
Openai consumer can enter hardware space
There was a new trademark application Filed On January 31, with the USPTO, where the applicant’s name was Openai. Typically, companies enter trademark applications for various reasons, and the filing does not have any additional implications. However, in the case of Openai, the application mentions a large number of hardware devices, which potentially indicate the company’s ambitions to enter space.
In the Goods and Services Section, the application mentions devices such as earphones, headphones, smartwatch, smart jewelery, media streaming devices, AR/VR headsets, glasses and user-modern humanoid robots. There were also signs for AI chipset that take advantage of “Quantum Computing Resources to Customize AI model performance”.
Separately, OpenEE CEO Sam Altman told The South Korean outlet is developing the AI-operated equipment generated through partnership with several companies on Monday.
Humanoid robots have also been the subject of discussion within the company. A report of last year claimed that the company is considering developing robots that look human-like. In 2024, several job listings related to openiI were also seen, where the AI ​​firm was looking for research engineers to join a robotics team. In particular, Openai is also an investor in many robotics startups, such as Figure AI, 1X technologies and physical intelligence.
The mention of “user-programs” in the application listing is also interesting. This suggests that Openai can be tilted towards the manufacture of humanoid robots that can perform many types of functions and adapt to specific functions. Such robots can be operated by generative AI and can be trained in simulation. In particular, NVIDIA recently released its cosmos platform that could simulate real -world landscapes to train robots and autonomous vehicles.
However, just because the company has mentioned a large number of equipment in a trademark filing, it does not mean that OpenIAI will begin to manufacture and launch these products over the next few years. So far, there is no public record of a company working on any hardware product.