Chopstick-Inspired Non-Prehensile Manipulation for Datacenter Automation
Automating repair and maintenance tasks in datacenters requires robots to operate in dense cable environmentswhere overlapping cables occlude target components and must be displaced without damage. Traditional prehensile approaches are impractical in such settings due…
SOSP 2026
Microsoft is proud to sponsor the 32nd Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) (opens in new tab) the premier forum for researchers, developers, programmers, and teachers of computer systems technology. This year’s conference is held in Prague, Czechia where academic and industrial…
Research Intern – Data Systems
The Data Systems group at Microsoft Research works on problems in data management in the era of cloud computing and artificial intelligence. We work on large-scale cloud data platforms including aspects such as resource management,…
Offloaded inference for real-world physical AI robotics
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…