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Bob McGrew

Listed in OpenAI's executive leadership on the o1 System Card; led aspects of OpenAI's robot-hand research

Bob McGrew worked at OpenAI, where the OpenAI o1 System Card (2024) lists McGrew under executive leadership. On OpenAI's 2019 paper on solving a Rubik's Cube with a robot hand, McGrew is an equal-contribution author, and the contributions section says McGrew led aspects of the project and set research directions. McGrew is also a co-author, with an OpenAI affiliation, of the 2021 Codex paper that introduced the HumanEval benchmark.123

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  • Listed under executive leadership in the OpenAI o1 System Card (2024), OpenAI123

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Sources · reviewed Oct 13, 2026

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    Solving Rubik's Cube with a Robot Hand (arXiv 1910.07113) (external site: arxiv.org)

    arXiv · Paper · published Oct 16, 2019 · accessed Oct 13, 2026

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    Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code (arXiv 2107.03374) (external site: arxiv.org)

    arXiv · Paper · published Jul 7, 2021 · accessed Oct 13, 2026

  4. 4.
    openai/human-eval repository (README citation; MIT License) (external site: github.com)

    OpenAI (GitHub repository) · Repository · accessed Oct 13, 2026

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