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 [...]
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 [...]
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). [...]
Microsoft Robotics Studio October Community Tech Preview (CTP)
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
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. [...]
Robots to Attend WE-DIG August Meeting
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
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
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 [...]
Microsoft Targets Robotics
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
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 [...]
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