Programming robots | LIVE141

AI is taking over the digital world, and it's exciting to see how AI can be used in the physical world. Once we have a robot, we need to figure out how to program it to do what we want. This demo shows how we can interface with multiple robots using the same API. 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀: * Chip Huyen * John Maeda 𝗦𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: This is one of many sessions from the Microsoft Build 2026 event. View even more sessions on-demand and learn about Microsoft Build at https://build.microsoft.com LIVE141 | English (US) Broadcast Stage #MSBuild Chapters: 0:00 - Overview of discussion on practical AI systems and robotics 00:05:13 - Introduction to Unitary, a profitable robotics company 00:06:56 - Advancements in robot motion through pre-captured movement demos 00:07:56 - Explaining Vision-Language-Action (VLA) Approach 00:08:13 - Challenges in Collecting Robot Action Data 00:09:23 - Developers Facing Rapidly Evolving AI Primitives 00:10:50 - Speaker reflects on not being good at online trends and shifts focus 00:11:44 - Example of safety design from 1X robot — intentionally weak grip for safety 00:12:06 - Following design rules for safe distance between robots and humans