Physical AI marks a transition from robots as programmed tools to robots as adaptable collaborators. That transition will ...

Microsoft launched Rho-alpha in late January 2026, a robot model that uses vision, language, and touch sensors for two-armed tasks.

The Rho-alpha model incorporates sensor modalities such as tactile feedback and is trained with human guidance, says ...

The company is positioning this approach as a turning point for robotics, comparable to what large generative models have done for text and images.

Microsoft Research has given a glimpse at some of its prototype data center robotics efforts. In a paper for Hotnets, the team said that "this marks the beginning of a fundamental shift in how we ...

Microsoft, it seems, is hedging its bets when it comes to general-purpose robotics AI. At the end of February, the Windows maker spearheaded a massive $675 million Series B in Bay Area-based Figure.

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is in the spotlight Wednesday ahead of its second-quarter earnings report today after the market closes.

Sanctuary AI and Microsoft will work together to bolster AI research and development and Sanctuary AI will leverage Microsoft’s Azure cloud resources for their AI workloads. SanctuaryAI is among the ...