By Alice Chambers |
Hexagon Robotics and Microsoft will deliver production-ready humanoid robots powered by physical AI, targeting manipulation and inspection use cases across the automotive, aerospace, manufacturing and logistics industries.
The partnership combines Hexagon’s expertise in sensor fusion, robotics and spatial intelligence with Microsoft’s cloud and AI technologies to address key deployment challenges, including data management, one-shot imitation learning and the training of multimodal AI models.
Hexagon is using Microsoft Fabric, Azure IoT Operations and Azure App Service to support its robotics platform, enabling real-time data processing and scalable AI workloads. The technologies are being applied to Hexagon’s industrial humanoid robot, AEON, which can detect defects in real time on the factory floor.
“By combining AEON’s sensor fusion and spatial intelligence with Azure’s scalable AI and cloud infrastructure, we’re enabling customers to deploy adaptive, AI-powered humanoid robots that support autonomous manufacturing across the global supply chain,” said Aaron Schnieder, vice president of engineering and emerging technologies at Microsoft.