Andrey Kolobov

Andrey Kolobov is a Principal Researcher and Research Manager at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington, where he leads the Physically Embodied AI & Robotics (PEAR) group. He focuses on decision-making for physically embodied AI, with emphasis on general-purpose robotic manipulation and large model-based approaches. His research spans online and offline reinforcement learning, imitation learning, planning, scheduling, and model-predictive control, and has been applied to systems including robotic manipulators, drones, the Edge browser, and Bing's web crawler. He is known for leading Microsoft's Rho-alpha robotics model project and the company's research partnerships in the humanoid robotics space.