Retail is entering a new era where robots do more than greet shoppers or roll products from aisle to aisle.

Microsoft, it seems, is hedging its bets when it comes to general-purpose robotics AI. At the end of February, the Windows maker spearheaded a massive $675 million Series B in Bay Area-based Figure.

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*Microsoft teamed with Bing to create TayTweets, an account for a robot that was designed to learn about “conversational understanding,” by having automated discussions with Twitter users, and ...

Figure, an AI robotics company that has received investments from Microsoft, OpenAI, NVIDIA, and Jeff Bezos has announced it signed a deal to put OpenAI technology inside humanoid robot brains. The ...

Well, maybe soccer is a little extreme. But the robot did kick a ball. ZMP of Japan showed off the two-legged walking robot today. It was built using Microsoft’s new robotics software, Microsoft ...

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Figure AI Inc., a startup developing humanoid robots, is reportedly in talks to raise $500 million in new funding led by Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI, according to a report from Bloomberg. Although the ...