An unlikely player in the development of robotic technology has emerged. Microsoft has revealed their new autonomous robot named Eddie, who can track people in a room, snap a picture of them, and ...

Microsoft unifies robot learning and operations with Azure–Nvidia physical AI Azure–Nvidia toolchain streamlines robot data, ...

Microsoft Research rolled out a new robot control system in late January 2026 that lets machines work with their hands while processing spoken commands and physical feedback. The system, called ...

Robots have long excelled at repetitive factory tasks, but they have struggled with the messy ambiguity of everyday human instructions. Microsoft’s new Rho-alpha model is an attempt to close that gap, ...

Microsoft’s Magma AI controls a robot arm, directing it to pick up a mushroom and put it in the cooking pot. The model, which uses a combination of vision and language processing, is trained on videos ...

Figure, an AI robotics company that has received investments from Microsoft, OpenAI, NVIDIA, and Jeff Bezos has announced it signed a deal to put OpenAI technology inside humanoid robot brains. The ...