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. Embedded [...]
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 its [...]
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 [...]
Microsoft Launches Robotics Studio
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
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 [...]
WiMo Robot Web Site
Brian of the Windows Mobile Team Blog created a web site for his WiMo robot. I blogged about the robot previously. In his post today, Brian indicated he will be putting hardware plans and source code on his new site.
I took a look at his new site. So far, the site has three sections. The [...]
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