Robot

For this week's Hardware Friday post I tried to find something that fit this week's Visual Studio Launch theme, but couldn't find anything that really fit. I DID find this post from the .Net Micro Framework team, On-going VS Express Support, which notes the VS 2012 support for the .Net Micro…

Last week, Chief Research and Strategy officer Craig Mundie demonstrated a software-based robot that uses both visual and voice recognition as well as speech synthesis to handle some basic tasks. The robot will be put into place on Microsoft’s campus to act as sort of a “robotic receptionist” that…

27 years ago (or there abouts) as a young lad, I desperately saved to buy a Heathkit Hero Jr. Hero Jr was the little brother of the Hero 1 (which featured in an American TV serious and got me hooked on robotics). By the time I had enough money to phone Maplin and order a Hero Jr they had…

Are you watching the DARPA Grand Challenge progress? If not you should be. This is the cutting edge of autonomous vehicle development. There are plenty of exotic tools and technologies coming into play - although more off the shelf parts are now available compared to the first 2004 Grand Challenge…

What's cooler than one robot playing soccer? TWO robots playing soccer! I went down to maker faire and found these robots with a huge crowd surrounding them. They can flip, roll and fight. Check out this video and see how it's done.

  Get up and running quickly with LEGO Mindstorms on your PC and to take best advantage of the .NET power now available for it. This article shows you some of the quirks and pitfalls of setting up your system and acquaints you with the challenges of programming using the…