Microsoft Robotics Studio

Posted By: Charles | Jun 20th, 2006 @ 10:53 AM | 204,485 Views | 64 Comments
Ever hear of the Microsoft Robotics Group? Us neither. Well, we do have a robotics team and they have just released a technical preview of the Microsoft Robotics Studio, which is a development platform that provides some highly innovative functionality for those of you interested in building robots or applications that require extensive loosely-coupled distributed parallelism(Remember the CCR interview we did a while back? Well, here's what's become of that great work). Did you know that you can control a robot from a web page using the Microsoft Robotics SDK? Yeah, us neither.

Robotics Home Page: http://msdn.microsoft.com/robotics

Robotics Group team Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/MSRoboticsStudio/
MS Robotics Studio Feedback: http://connect.microsoft.com/roboticsstudio
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#Jun 20th, 2006 @ 12:04 PM
SCMcDonnell
SCMcDonnell
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Was that your ringtone?!

One of my favorite videos so far.

SM
#Jun 20th, 2006 @ 1:36 PM
Charles
Charles
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SCMcDonnell wrote:
Was that your ringtone?!

One of my favorite videos so far.

SM


Yep, that's my ringtone. Need to remember to turn off my phone when conducting interviews...

Glad you liked the interview. I will be talking to the Robotics folks again; next time digging a little deeper into the API and talking about future iterations of the platform.

Very cool stuff.
#Jun 20th, 2006 @ 2:51 PM
ben2004uk
ben2004uk
this might be answered in the video (will watch it in the morning) but where can you buy the robots in the UK?? Or the kit to build them??
#Jun 20th, 2006 @ 2:58 PM
mixelz
mixelz
You missed a ':' in the url Charles.

Very cool movie! Fun to experiment with on a boring afternoon or something Smiley.
#Jun 20th, 2006 @ 3:28 PM
Charles
Charles
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albertpascual wrote:


Where can I download the SDK?

Cheers

Al

http://alpascual.com/blog/al



here
#Jun 20th, 2006 @ 3:28 PM
Charles
Charles
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mixelz wrote:
You missed a ':' in the url Charles.



Fixed. Thanks.
#Jun 20th, 2006 @ 6:00 PM
georgioc
georgioc
Hi Ben, the robotics studio runtime and development tools do not come with any robotic hardware. We  made sure our services work with a variety of consumer, hobbyist and high end robots but you have to buy the hardware seperately. Alot of these robots are available in Europe (most of them actually come from europe) and they are priced reasonably. Plus, if you have no robot hardware, you can always build really nice robots in our simulator.

In terms of robot hardware look into Lego mindstorms, fishertechnik, parallax, phidgets, etc
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