Hardware & devices
Driving advances in hardware, devices and cyber-physical systems.
Project
Project MakeAccessible
Can we empower more people to build low-cost, custom accessibility devices? Over 1 billion people around the world have some form of disability and nearly everyone will experience disability at some point in their lifetime.…
Video
Learning to Walk
Legged locomotion is commonly studied and programmed as a discrete set of structured gait patterns, like walk, trot, gallop. However, studies of children learning to walk (Adolph et al) show that real-world locomotion is often…
Microsoft Research Blog
Toward nanoscale DNA writers: Unlocking scalable DNA data writing technology
Editor’s note: The researchers would like to acknowledge co-authors Christopher Takahashi, Gagan Gupta, Jake Smith, Richard Rouse, Paul Berndt, Sergey Yekhanin, David Ward, Siena Ang, Patrick Garvan, Hsing-Yeh Parker, Rob Carlson, Douglas Carmean, and Luis…
Project
Project Zerix
Transitioned | By exploring new biological and chemical circularity pathways, Project Zerix aims to achieve net-zero embodied carbon and net-zero waste in our datacenters and beyond — eliminating environmental impacts that pose threats to the…