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, ...

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Friendly robots, the ones people love to love, are quirky: R2-D2, C-3PO, WALL-E, BB-8, Marvin, Roz and Baymax. They're ...

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

Designed to improve robots’ reasoning, the Rho-alpha vision-language-action model marks Microsoft’s offering in the growing field of physical AI.

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

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

As generative AI tools like ChatGPT capture global attention, a new frontier is emerging—physical AI, or artificial intelligence that can interact with the real world. While large language models are ...

Large language models like ChatGPT display conversational skills, but the problem is they don’t really understand the words they use. They are primarily systems that interact with data obtained from ...