'Robotics' Category Archive

RoboBusiness Conference and Exposition 2008

Posted by Ken Cheung in Events, Training, Robotics on Thursday, March 13, 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

Posted by Ken Cheung in Events, Training, Robotics on Wednesday, December 12, 2007

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

Posted by Ken Cheung in Robotics on Tuesday, April 10, 2007

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

Posted by Ken Cheung in Robotics on Tuesday, December 19, 2006

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

Posted by Ken Cheung in RTOS, Robotics on Thursday, October 19, 2006

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 […]

Microsoft Robotics Studio October Community Tech Preview (CTP)

Posted by Ken Cheung in Robotics on Sunday, October 8, 2006

Today, I read on Mikehall's Embedded WEblog (doesn't anyone take the weekend off anymore?) that the Microsoft Robotics Studio October Community Tech Preview (CTP) is available for download. According to the Microsoft Robotics Studio Blog, the new "release gets around the problem of Managed DirectX 2.0 expiring October 5 by moving to the new XNA […]

RoboDevelopment Conference and Exposition

Posted by Ken Cheung in Events, Training, Robotics on Wednesday, August 9, 2006

The RoboDevelopment Conference and Exposition, an international technical design and development event for personal, service and mobile robotics industry, will be held December 13-14, 2006 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara California.
The development of robotic technology requires the mastery of multiple disciplines — software development, as well as mechanical and electrical engineering. Embedded […]

Robots to Attend WE-DIG August Meeting

Posted by Ken Cheung in Events, Training, Robotics on Wednesday, July 26, 2006

The Robotics SDK is the focus of the WE-DIG August Meeting. Microsoft is inviting humans and robots to meet the androids group that developed the Robotics SDK.
Date: Wednesday August 2, 2006
Time: 6:30 - 9:00pm
Where: Bldg 117, Chinook, Microsoft Campus, Redmond, Washington
Source: Mikehall's Embedded WEblog

WiMo NXT Smartphone Robot

Posted by Ken Cheung in Robotics, Wireless on Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Brian over on the Windows Mobile Team Blog has created a cousin for his WiMo robots. He built his new robot, WiMo NXT, using the Lego Mindstorms NXT.
Like the original WiMo, it talks to the Lego NXT brick via Bluetooth. Most of the code is the same except for the actual protocol used to […]

Choromet Humanoid Robot

Posted by Ken Cheung in Robotics on Friday, July 14, 2006

The Japaneses have done it again. This time they created a humanoid robot that looks like a Transformer. The robot is called "HRP-2m Choromet," or "Choromet," for short.

Chromet is 35 cm high, weighs 1.5 kg, and has 20 degrees of freedom. It has triaxial force/torque sensors on its legs and accelerometer and gyroscope on its […]

Microsoft Targets Robotics

Posted by Ken Cheung in Robotics on Thursday, July 13, 2006

Microsoft is up to something. Last month Microsoft launched their new Robotics Studio and Robotics Studio Blog. Then yesterday, Microsoft announced the creation of the Institute for Personal Robots in Education (IPRE) in partnership with the College of Computing at Georgia Tech and Bryn Mawr College. The institute is designed to reinvigorate computer science curriculum […]

The WiMo Robot Army

Posted by Ken Cheung in Robotics, Wireless on Friday, July 7, 2006

The WiMo robots are breeding. There are now three of them. WiMo is the Windows Mobile Robot created by Brian of the Windows Mobile Team. WiMo uses a Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone as the central "brain" for the robot. The Smartphone communicates to a microcontroller via Bluetooth and also communicates with a Pocket PC via […]

Microsoft Launches Robotics Studio

Posted by Ken Cheung in Robotics on Tuesday, June 20, 2006

It looks like Microsoft has now officially launched the Microsoft Robotics Studio. The software is a new Windows(R)-based environment for academic, hobbyist and commercial developers to easily create robotic applications for a wide variety of computing platforms. The community technology preview of the Microsoft Robotics Studio is available for download. Microsoft also has a Microsoft […]

Microsoft Robotics Studio Blog

Posted by Ken Cheung in Robotics on Monday, June 19, 2006

Looks like Microsoft has launched a new blog, Robotics Studio Blog. There's only one post so far — something about Microsoft being a gold sponsor of the RoboBusiness Conference and Exposition. It appears Microsoft will deliver a conference session outlining its perspective of the robotics market and will host a technical seminar for hobbyist, commercial […]

If you found this page useful, bookmark and share it on:
 
EDA Blog Newsletter
Don't have time to visit EDA Blog everyday? Then sign up for our free newsletter. We'll send you an email when we have something to share with you. Your email address will be kept confidential and we will not share, sell, or rent it to anyone. You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking a link in the email.

Enter your email address to sign up for our free newsletter:   

If you are familiar with RSS feeds, you can also sign up for our free blog feed. Our RSS feed is updated in real-time while our newsletter is updated daily.