Microsoft Research — Robotics & AI
Developed AirSim — the most widely used open-source robotics simulator — and Project Bonsai for industrial robot control. Major investor and research partner for humanoid robot companies.
Notable achievements
AirSim simulator, Project Bonsai, $95M investment in Figure AI, Azure robotics cloud platform.
Notable work
Recent publications
All papers →Matched by this lab's specialties (keyword overlap + direct affiliation)
Beyond rigid automation: A review of vision-language-action models for adaptive human–robot disassembly
Baki Ul Islam, Joao Paulo Jacomini Prioli, Jose Carlos Hernandez Azucena
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing · 2027
Copilot: A framework for integrating LLM and BMI to enhance human–robot interaction
Siyu Liu, Mengzhen Liu, Zhiyuan Ming +6 more
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing · 2026
Simulation-assisted development and experimental validation of a cobot screwdriving system for automotive assembly
Francisco Cunha, André Gonçalves, Tiago Pereira +13 more
Robotics and Autonomous Systems · 2026
Artificial pushing adaptive coordinated control for the human-exoskeleton-walker system
Xinhao Zhang, Chen Yang, Chaobin Zou +4 more
Robotics and Autonomous Systems · 2026
MuVAP: Multimodal Multiparty Voice Activity Projection for Turn-taking Prediction in the Wild
Haotian Qi, Gabriel Skantze
2026
An Attention-based Model for Robust Forecasting with Missing Modality
Zhitian Zhang, Wenjie Zi, Yunduz Rakhmangulova +3 more
2026