Insider Brief
- Richtech Robotics said it has collaborated with Microsoft’s AI Co-Innovation Labs to develop agentic AI capabilities for commercial robots, integrating perception, voice interaction, and contextual reasoning through Microsoft Azure AI.
- The work focused on enhancing Richtech’s ADAM robot with situational awareness, enabling it to adapt behavior based on signals such as time of day, demand conditions, and visual input, while improving operational monitoring in retail environments.
- Richtech said the capabilities are designed to extend across logistics, hospitality, manufacturing, and other settings, allowing software-driven intelligence to be deployed broadly across its robot fleet without significant new hardware investment.
Richtech Robotics said it has worked with Microsoft’s AI Co-Innovation Labs to develop and deploy agentic AI capabilities in commercial robots, using Microsoft’s Azure AI platform to add perception, voice interaction, and contextual reasoning to its systems.
“Our collaboration with Microsoft reflects a shared focus on applying advanced AI to practical, real-world use cases,” Wayne Huang, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Richtech Robotics, said in the announcement. “By working closely with the Microsoft AI Co-Innovation Labs, our teams were able to jointly develop and deploy intelligent capabilities that strengthen reliability, enhance customer interactions, and support scalable automation across physical environments.”
The collaboration focused on enhancing Richtech’s ADAM robot with greater situational awareness, allowing it to adjust behavior based on environmental signals such as time, demand patterns, and visual input, while improving operational monitoring in retail settings.
The company said the work is intended to extend across other environments, including logistics, hospitality, and manufacturing, enabling software-driven intelligence to be applied broadly across its robot fleet without major hardware changes.
