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

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

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’s Rho-alpha, which combines vision and tactile sensing, is part of an industry move towards foundation-style ...

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

Humanoid successfully demonstrated its HMND 01 Alpha wheeled mobile manipulator at a Siemens production facility in Germany.