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

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

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

When it comes to ultra-humanlike Westworld-style robots, one of their most defining features are lips that move in perfect ...

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

Robots often fail outside factories when things move or change. Technology helps them see, feel, and learn, so they can work ...

To match the lip movements with speech, they designed a "learning pipeline" to collect visual data from lip movements. An AI model uses this data for training, then generates reference points for ...

X Square Robot has raised $140 million to build the WALL-A model for general-purpose robots just four months after raising ...

Almost half of our attention during face-to-face conversation focuses on lip motion. Yet, robots still struggle to move their ...

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