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

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 ...

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