RLWRLD, a robotics-AI firm developing robots capable of perceiving and interacting with real-world industrial environments, has announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft to boost the development, research and commercialization of industrial robotics AI. Under this alliance, RLWRLD will leverage Microsoft Azure’s GPU/CPU clusters, enterprise-grade security, APIs and cloud storage to scale up training of its robotics foundation model (RFM) which is trained on high-precision 4D+ multimodal data captured from real factories in Korea, Japan and the United States enabling advanced reinforcement learning, imitation learning, and Vision-Language-Action (VLA) capabilities. The collaboration focuses on deeper research with Microsoft Research (MSR). It focuses on innovations such as latent-action modeling and advanced vision-language models for complex factory environments. The two companies will work together on proof-of-concept projects, co-marketing, and technical demos. They will focus on manufacturing, logistics, retail, and hospitality in Asia. This aims to accelerate the use of AI-powered robotic solutions.
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“Partnering with Microsoft provides RLWRLD with a powerful foundation to scale our robotics foundation model globally with speed and reliability,” said Jung-hee Ryu, CEO of RLWRLD. Johnny Tian, Vice President of Microsoft Digital Native Asia Sales, added: “We’re excited to support their global expansion through Azure and Microsoft Research, and to build an ecosystem that empowers Asian enterprises to unlock meaningful competitive advantages through robotics-driven AI.” The alliance positions RLWRLD as a leading innovator in the physical-AI landscape combining its real-world industrial datasets and robotics expertise with Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure and global reach and aims to set a new benchmark for real-world robotics AI deployment in industrial and logistics ecosystems.
