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    Microsoft Object-Centric Residual RL: Better Robot Reflexes From Simulation

    Microsoft Research has presented an object-centric residual reinforcement learning method that trains a lightweight corrective robot policy entirely in simulation, adds it to a frozen vision-language-action model, and reports zero-shot real-robot gains across five manipulation tasks from 42...
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    Rho-alpha: Microsoft’s Physical AI for Dual-Arm Robotic Manipulation

    Microsoft Research’s Rho‑alpha marks a decisive move to embed large, multimodal AI into physical robots — translating everyday language into coordinated, tactile-aware actions on dual arms and humanoidanoid platforms and promising to reframe how manufacturers, integrators, and researchers think...