🔬 Corporate#17 Redmond, WA, USA· Est. 1991
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.
simulationAI planninghuman-robot interactionrobot learningAirSim
Notable achievements
AirSim simulator, Project Bonsai, $95M investment in Figure AI, Azure robotics cloud platform.
Notable work
AirSimProject Bonsai
Recent publications
All papers →Matched by this lab's specialties (keyword overlap + direct affiliation)
HRI
Open access
6G Communication Networks Enabling Embodied Agents: Architecture and Prototype
Lipeng Dai, Luping Xiang, Kun Yang
2026
HRI
Open access
Robots That Know What to Ask: Recovering Misaligned Rewards through Targeted Explanations
Helena Merker, Nick Walker, Andreea Bobu
2026
MANIPULATION
Open access
GesVLA: Gesture-Aware Vision-Language-Action Model Embedded Representations
Wenxuan Guo, Ziyuan Li, Meng Zhang +7 more
2026
LEARNING
Open access
Superhuman Safe and Agile Racing through Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Ismail Geles, Leonard Bauersfeld, Markus Wulfmeier +1 more
2026