Research
Driving advances in hardware, devices, and cyber-physical systems that expand the possibilities of computing.
HapticBots introduces a novel encountered-type haptic approach for Virtual Reality (VR) based on multiple tabletop-size shape-changing robots. These robots move on a tabletop and change their height and orientation to haptically render various surfaces and…
X-Rings is a novel hand-mounted 360-degree shape display for Virtual Reality that renders objects in 3D and responds to user-applied touch and grasping force. Designed as a modular stack of motor-driven expandable rings (5.7-7.7 cm…
On an 8,000-acre family farm in Eastern Washington, Microsoft Research helps deploy precision agriculture, putting AI and powerful data analysis tools in the hands of an eighth-generation farmer, enabling him to adapt to climate extremes…
This library is a collection of GitHub repositories containing software applications, data sets, and hardware reference designs to support research and education in the fields of service-robotics. The term service-robotics refers to the expectation that the robots can…
