Microsoft

Microsoft supplies cloud computing and research collaboration rather than hardware to humanoid makers. Figure, Sanctuary AI and Hexagon have all announced Azure-based partnerships.

Category: AI models and software
Country: United States
Founded: 1975
Reported customers: 3Named by the press or the companies
Robots: 2Name it in their parts
Listed: MSFT (NASDAQ)Stock market

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What it makes

From the company's own description and the sources below.

Makes: Azure cloud infrastructure and AI research used to train and run humanoid robot models.
Parts: AI model
Tier: Parts and modules
Founded: 1975
Listed: MSFT (NASDAQ)
Products: Microsoft Azure

Reported customers

Supply deals and partnerships as reported by the companies or the press.

Figure AIAzure for AI training and storage · 2024-02
Figure said it will use Microsoft Azure for AI infrastructure, training and storage, and Microsoft invested in its Series B. Figure AI (PR Newswire)
Phoenix (8th generation)Sanctuary AIAzure and AI research collaboration
Sanctuary AI announced a collaboration with Microsoft on AI models for its Phoenix robots, running training and inference on Azure. Sanctuary AI
AEONHexagonAzure for development and training · 2025-06
Hexagon named Microsoft a technology partner, with Azure used for AEON's development and training. Hexagon (press release via Kyodo News PR Wire)

Named in robots' parts lists

Quotes are from each robot's parts profile, which links its sources.

AEONHexagon · 2025Pilot use
“NVIDIA Omniverse simulation and Microsoft Azure training, end-to-end learning;”
No public photo yetWe only show photos we're allowed to useFLASHWroclaw University of Technology (Jan Kedzierski) · 2012Discontinued
“Gostai Urbi, FAtiMA, Player, Adept ARIA, OpenCV, SDL, Microsoft Speech API, Loquendo, PittPatt and OpenNI.”

Sources

Where each fact on this page comes from.

Figure AI (PR Newswire) Figure Raises $675M at $2.6B Valuation and Signs Collaboration Agreement with OpenAI Sanctuary AI Sanctuary AI announces Microsoft collaboration to accelerate AI development for general purpose robots Hexagon (press release via Kyodo News PR Wire) Hexagon launches AEON, a humanoid built for industry

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