National Instruments LabVIEW Robotics 2009
National Instruments introduced the LabVIEW Robotics 2009 development platform for designing robotic and autonomous control systems. NI LabVIEW Robotics 2009 features an extensive robotics library with connectivity to standard robotic sensors and actuators, foundational algorithms for intelligent operations and perception, and motion functions for robots and autonomous vehicles.
MassTLC Summit: The Future of Robotics
The Mass Technology Leadership Council (MassTLC) will hold a Future of Robotics Summit on Tuesday, December 8, 2009 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Microsoft NERD Center in Cambridge. Attendees will hear from leading robotic research institutions about the latest research coming down the pipeline and opportunities for partnership and commercialization. The research [...]
IAR Embedded Workbench for LEGO MINDSTORMS
IAR Systems announced IAR Embedded Workbench for LEGO MINDSTORMS. The free version of IAR Embedded Workbench compiler and debugger can be use for programming the NXT Intelligent Brick in the LEGO MINDSTORMS robotic building system. It is a completely integrated C/C++ development environment that includes a project manager, editor, build tools and IAR C-SPY debugger [...]
Actin Robotics Toolkit 2.0
Energid Technologies Corporation recently upgraded Actin, which is software for controlling and simulating robots. Actin 2.0 will enable new robotic designs across industries and support development from conception through productization and fielding. The Actin 2.0 toolkit provides advanced algorithms and software for controlling even the most complex robots, including those with 100 or more degrees [...]
Birds-of-a-Feather Discussions at RoboDevelopment Conference
The RoboDevelopment Conference & Exposition is international technical design and development event for personal, service, and mobile robotics industry. The event will take place November 18-19, 2008 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California. This year’s RoboDevelopment Expo features Birds-of-a-Feather Discussions. The discussions provide an opportunity for conference attendees to break into [...]
RoboBusiness Conference and Exposition 2008
The RoboBusiness Conference and Exposition will be held April 8-10, 2008 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, PA. RoboBusiness Conference and Exposition is the only robotics event that enables decision-makers from business, government and academia to easily grasp the potential opportunities arising from emerging robotics technologies. From developing new products, services and [...]
Screencast: Driving a Robot from Windows Mobile with Microsoft Robotics Studio
Check out Olivier Bloch’s webcast on using Microsoft Robotics Studio to build a service that runs on a Windows Mobile phone. The screencast shows how to use Robotics Studio to remotely drive a robot (connected via Bluetooth) from a Windows Mobile device.
The screencast covers:
Creating a simple service with Visual Studio 2005
Using Microsoft Visual programming language [...]
Microsoft Robotics Video Tutorials
If you are into robots, check out the Microsoft’s online video tutorials posted on their Robotics site:
Architecture Overview
This session will go into depth on the underlying Microsoft Robotics Studio services-oriented runtime. Learn how the concurrency library makes asynchronous application development simple, and how the services and message-based architecture make it easy to access the state [...]
Microsoft Robotics Studio
Last week, Microsoft released Robotics Studio, which is a Windows(R)-based development environment for creating robotic software for a wide variety of hardware platforms. The Microsoft Robotics Studio environment is an end-to-end, scalable and extensible robotics development platform that includes the following:
A visual programming language that enables nonprogrammers to easily program robots using a drag-and-drop environment
A [...]
WiMo Robot Returns
I forgot all about WiMo the robot until I visited the Windows Mobile Team Blog today. It appears Brian has been enjoying the summer. Excuse me Brian, but geeks are not allowed outside. It’s the law. For those of you who don’t remember, WiMo is a robot powered by a smartphone (Windows Mobile of course).
Here [...]
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