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How Roblox Helps Developers Create, Scale, and Monetize
At Roblox, our vision is to reimagine how people come together to play, work, and connect. We are building an immersive platform for communication and connection where 71.5 million users* in 190 countries spend 2.4 hours playing games and sharing exp...
| March 21, 2024 -
Roblox ML Engineer Xiao Yu Receives Test of Time Award
We are pleased to congratulate Roblox machine learning engineer Xiao Yu and his co-authors on receiving the Test of Time award at the 17th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2024). The Test of Time Award is a mark of his...
| March 06, 2024 -
Breaking Down Language Barriers with a Multilingual Translation Model
Imagine discovering that your new Roblox friend, a person you’ve been chatting and joking with in a new experience, is actually in Korea — and has been typing in Korean the entire time, while you’ve been typing in English, without either of you...
| February 05, 2024 -
Inside the Tech – Solving for Safety in Immersive Voice Communication
Inside the Tech is a blog series that accompanies our Tech Talks Podcast. In episode 20 of the podcast, The Evolution of Roblox Avatars, Roblox CEO David Baszucki spoke with Senior Director of Engineering Kiran Bhat, Senior Director of Product Mahesh...
| January 18, 2024 -
Inside the Tech – Solving for Avatar Facial Expressions
Inside the Tech is a blog series that accompanies our Tech Talks Podcast. In episode 20 of the podcast, Avatars & Self-Expression, Roblox CEO David Baszucki spoke with Senior Director of Engineering Kiran Bhat, Senior Director of Product Mahesh R...
| December 28, 2023 -
2023 Year in Review — A Letter From Our CEO
This was a big year for Roblox. We made great progress toward our vision of reimagining the way people come together by building innovative technologies that enable richer forms of communication, creation, and immersion. During Q3* of this year, we s...
| December 21, 2023 -
How We’re Making Roblox’s Infrastructure More Efficient and Resilient
As Roblox has grown over the past 16+ years, so has the scale and complexity of the technical infrastructure that supports millions of immersive 3D co-experiences. The number of machines we support has more than tripled over the past two years, from ...
| December 07, 2023 -
How Roblox Reduces Spark Join Query Costs With Machine Learning Optimized Bloom Filters
Abstract Every day on Roblox, 70 million users engage with millions of experiences, totaling 16 billion hours quarterly. This interaction generates a petabyte-scale data lake, which is enriched for analytics and machine learning (ML) purposes. It’s...
| November 28, 2023 -
Insights From Our Latest Digital Expression, Fashion & Beauty Trends Report
Watch our virtual expert panel “What’s Next in Digital Self-Expression?” for a deep dive into this year’s trends. Self-expression is a vital part of many people’s experiences in immersive 3D spaces—especially Gen Z, who are growing up bui...
| November 09, 2023 -
Inside the Tech – Solving for Multilingual & Semantic Search
Inside the Tech is a blog series that accompanies our Tech Talks Podcast. In episode 19 of the podcast, International, Roblox CEO David Baszucki spoke with Product Senior Director Zhen Fang about Roblox’s International strategy, and the technical c...
| November 07, 2023 -
Inside the Tech – Solving for Automatic Translations on Roblox
Inside the Tech is a blog series that goes hand-in-hand with our Tech Talks Podcast. In episode 19, International, Roblox CEO David Baszucki spoke with Zhen Fang, Head of International, about tackling automatic translation and multilingual search. In...
| October 31, 2023 -
Reimagining How People Come Together Through Communication, Connection, and Expression
Imagine being at a packed Chainsmokers concert. Up front, the music is infectious and loud, and it’s hard to hear friends. But farther away from the band, it’s possible to talk with them. Or picture gathering with family members across the globe ...
| October 19, 2023 -
The Future of How We Work Together at Roblox
Today I shared an update with our employees about the future of how we work together at Roblox. *** Dear Roblox Employees, Today we will be asking a number of our remote employees to begin working from our headquarters in San Mateo by next summer and...
| October 17, 2023 -
How Roblox Avatar Tech Is Evolving
We currently support two different tech stacks for avatars: A legacy tech stack (R6) that supports older avatars and experiences; and a newer tech stack (R15) that supports all avatar styles and capabilities. To ensure that any avatar style will work...
| October 17, 2023 -
Inside the Tech – Solving for Matchmaking on Roblox
Inside the Tech is a blog series that goes hand-in-hand with our Tech Talks Podcast. Here, we dive further into a key technical challenge we’re tackling and share the unique approaches we’re taking to do so. In this edition of Inside the Tech, we...
| October 11, 2023 -
Accelerating innovation: How eight startup founders are continuing to innovate at Roblox
Every day, teams across Roblox solve complex technical challenges and build innovative solutions that bring our vision and mission to life. To accelerate this work, Roblox continually looks for startups that can bring new domain expertise, skills, an...
| October 03, 2023 -
Inside the Tech – Solving for Personalization on Roblox
Inside the Tech is a blog series that goes hand-in-hand with our Tech Talks Podcast. Here, we dive further into key technical challenges we are tackling and share the unique approaches we are taking to do so. In this edition of Inside the Tech, we sp...
| September 26, 2023