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)
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
Safety-Critical Adaptive Impedance Control via Nonsmooth Control Barrier Functions under State and Input Constraints
Faisal Lawan, Xiaoran Han, Joaquin Carrasco +2 more
2026
Container Unloading via Reinforcement Learning: Picking Order, Deadlock Avoidance, and Proof-of-Concept Simulation
Jan Rüdiger, Max Schenke, Daniel Weber
2026
Guide, Think, Act: Interactive Embodied Reasoning in Vision-Language-Action Models
Yiran Ling, Qing Lian, Jinghang Li +6 more
2026