Microsoft introduces Rho-alpha, an AI that understands human commands and controls two-armed robots with near-human precision.

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

Microsoft has introduced a new artificial intelligence model aimed at pushing robots beyond controlled ...

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 ...

Realbotix has announced a major advancement for its AI-powered humanoid robot, which can now speak 15 languages fluently and access an additional 147 languages and dialects through cloud-based support ...

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

Covariant, the artificial intelligence spinout from UC Berkeley, has unveiled RFM-1 (Robotics Foundation Model 1), positioned as a "large language model (LLM) for robot language" by CEO Peter Chen.

Robot learning and language acquisition represent an interdisciplinary endeavour combining robotics, artificial intelligence and cognitive science. This field studies how autonomous systems can ...