Generalist AI said its latest model marks a significant step toward its mission of creating general intelligence for the physical world.

Microsoft has introduced a new artificial intelligence model aimed at pushing robots beyond controlled factory environments. The system, called Rho-alpha, targets one of robotics’ long-standing ...

Robots have long excelled at repetitive factory tasks, but they have struggled with the messy ambiguity of everyday human instructions. Microsoft’s new Rho-alpha model is an attempt to close that gap, ...