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Matthew Balkwill

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Two images showing the robot performing the same task of handing over a tape from one robot arm to another. The videos show that while the task succeeds when the inference latency is low, the handover fails with high inference latency as is the case with onboard robot GPUs.
Microsoft Research Blog

| 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.