Hardware & devices
Driving advances in hardware, devices and cyber-physical systems.
Microsoft Research Blog
Training deep control policies for the real world
Humans subconsciously use perception-action loops to do just about everything, from walking down a crowded sidewalk to scoring a goal in a community soccer league. Perception-action loops—using sensory input to decide on appropriate action in…
Video
Inside look at the DARPA Subterranean Urban Circuit Challenge 2020
Over the last year, ten teams from around the world have been participating in the DARPA Subterranean challenges. These challenges are designed to test drones and robots on how they perform in hazardous physical environments…
Video
Learning Visuomotor Policies for Aerial Navigation Using Cross-Modal Representations
Machines are a long way from robustly solving open-world perception-control tasks, such as first-person view (FPV) aerial navigation. While recent advances in end-to-end Machine Learning, especially Imitation and Reinforcement Learning appear promising, they are constrained…
Dataset Source Code
AirSim Drone Racing VAE Imitation
This repository provides a code base to evaluate and train models from the paper “Learning Visuomotor Policies for Aerial Navigation Using Cross-Modal Representations”.
Project
Democratizing Hardware Initiative
Currently, developing new electronic devices requires significant expertise and resource, and such hardware products are often only practical at scale. We want to make the design and manufacture of new electronic devices quicker, cheaper, easier…
Podcast
Engineering research to life with Gavin Jancke
If you want an inside look at how a research idea goes from project to prototype to product, you should hang out with Gavin Jancke for a while. He’s the General Manager of Engineering for…
Project
Project Zanzibar
Project Zanzibar is a flexible, portable mat that can sense and track physical objects, identify what they are, and allow you to interact through multi-touch and hover gestures.
Publication
The BBC micro: bit: from the U.K. to the world
Project
Quickr: Cost-Effective Data Analytics at Scale
Quickr explores cost-effective data analytics at scale, breaking new ground in research on offering approximate answers for complex ad-hoc queries.