Robots have long excelled at repetitive factory tasks, but they have struggled with the messy ambiguity of everyday human ...

Physical AI marks a transition from robots as programmed tools to robots as adaptable collaborators. That transition will unfold over years rather than months, but the foundation models emerging from ...

Microsoft has unveiled Rho-alpha, a next-generation robotics AI model designed to help machines understand the physical world ...

Microsoft has announced Rho-alpha, a new robotics AI model derived from its Phi vision-language series, aimed at helping ...

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

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

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

Microsoft’s Rho-alpha pushes robots beyond assembly lines using language commands, tactile sensing, and heavy simulation ...

Humanoid says its HMND 01 wheeled Alpha robot picked totes from a storage stack, transported them to a conveyor, and placed ...

Serve Robotics said it has spent the past year rapidly expanding the number of robots it has operating in the world, doing ...