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Creative Robotics and Future Technologies
Microsoft Research blog
Offloaded inference for real-world physical AI robotics
| Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Matthew Balkwill, Xenofon Foukas, Sanjeev Mehrotra, Bozidar Radunovic, Connor Settle, Ankit Verma, David White, Shawn Cicoria, Mark Martin, Rachel Johnson, and Mayur Patel
Robots are getting smarter, but how can their hardware match that growth? New Microsoft Research findings show that moving AI inference beyond the robot can improve task success, boost efficiency, and support more advanced physical AI workloads.
RASCAL: Novel robotics for scalable and highly available automated storage and retrieval
| Richard Black, Marco Caballero, Andromachi Chatzieleftheriou, Ant Rowstron, David Sweeney, and Hugh Williams
RASCAL is an untethered robot with a modular design, allowing it to move flexibly along and between evenly spaced storage shelves. Discover how it can address the availability and scalability challenges of existing automated storage and retrieval systems.