Comment Feed for Microsoft Robotics Studio (Charles on Channel 9)

Re: Microsoft Robotics Studio

David R Pitkin — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:14:14 GMT

Anyone have an Idea where I could find Developers for this MRSS

Re: Microsoft Robotics Suite - WHAT LANGUAGE SHOULD I LEARN?

SoCal Sam — Wed, 09 May 2007 15:37:15 GMT

I would learn languages in this order (if you are going to do robotics):

Visual Basic: reason, BASIC is still widely used in industry, so VB would be your best bet, plus instrumentation suites use BASIC from earlier construction eras. Lab View has some interesting tools and students can get it for free.

SQL: What a database language for robotics? Right, well were are you going to keep your data and instrumentation, parts tracking, etc. Plus it is a good bread and butter language, you can always get work doing SQL databases.

C#: No doubt this is the emerging language

VC++: Not popular in the older robotic suites, but the folks that love to complicate every technology are pushing to go back to really complicated processes that the general population looks and considers just silly. But they manage to get in control somehow.

IronPython: See VC++

C: This is a truely bad choice of languages, but academic researchers still use it. Very insecure, but still in use for no good reason.

Re: Microsoft Robotics Suite - WHAT LANGUAGE SHOULD I LEARN?

array2001 — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:28:15 GMT

As far as I know Robotics Studio supports C#, VB.net and Python. Check the MSRS newsgroup linked from http://msdn.microsoft.com/robotics/ for detailed discussions on this..

Microsoft Robotics Suite - WHAT LANGUAGE SHOULD I LEARN?

holdenhinkle — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:50:32 GMT

Hello,

I am very interested in artificial intelligence and robotics and would like to learn a programming language, however, I don't know where to start.

Can someone please tell me what language to start with? A friend of mine who has been programming in Java for years told me to learn Ruby. Does the Microsoft Robotics Suite support Java and or Ruby?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Holden

Re: Microsoft Robotics Studio

array2001 — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 15:31:43 GMT

Congratulations for the V1 release! I've been workign with it since December, but I didn't know about this video. It is always nice to get information directly from the development team.

Is there any newer interview after the MSRS 1.0 release?

I just got a couple of mobilerobots Pioneer P3DX robot bases, and I'm desperate to check whether the code developed using the simulator actually works in real robots..

Raul (http://www.conscious-robots.com).

Re: Microsoft Robotics Studio

georgioc — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 14:56:17 GMT

Hi everyone, V1 is now released! Please visit www.microsoft.com/robotics for the latest bits, news.

Thank you to all for the great feedback here and the newsgroups

g

Re: Microsoft Robotics Studio

georgioc — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 15:11:16 GMT

abhishekworld wrote:
how to make a bot compatable with robotics studio like boe-bot.....please help

Hi we already talk to the boe bot and we have sample code for it. Please download our CTP and review the samples\platforms\parallax. Instructions are on the parallax site in terms of hardware configuration and they are being updated to match our latest CTP

Re: Microsoft Robotics Studio

abhishekworld — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 07:19:21 GMT

how to make a bot compatable with robotics studio like boe-bot.....please help

Re: Microsoft Robotics Studio

ozgan — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 21:15:54 GMT

Microsoft Robotic Studio very nice.

I like Microsoft Visual Programming Language. (MVPL) tool. :)

Re: Microsoft Robotics Studio

georgioc — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 20:19:53 GMT

Micu wrote:

Hi from Budapest!

Is it possible to program Lego SpyBot or Lego CyberMaster with the CCR graphics environment released on Sept.

Or still we can use only RCX?

Thanks,

Miklós Csermendy

Hi the Lego RCX and Lego NXT are the only platforms we have written services for. However we do recommend you try to write a simple service that communicates over serial (like we show in many of our samples) to talk to these lego platforms as well.

Feel free to post to our newsgroup, there is an active discussion there for questions like these.

Re: Microsoft Robotics Studio

Micu — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:43:26 GMT

Hi from Budapest!

Is it possible to program Lego SpyBot or Lego CyberMaster with the CCR graphics environment released on Sept.

Or still we can use only RCX?

Thanks,

Miklós Csermendy

Re: Microsoft Robotics Studio

Sulphurlee — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 05:04:26 GMT

:D I'm so interested in this new technology~

Thank you for providing this video~

Hope you can do better~

Re: Microsoft Robotics Studio

blackmancer — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 02:11:49 GMT

this looks like such a great inovation. well done M$ :P seriously, well done.

Re: Microsoft Robotics Studio

tgraupmann — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 21:03:56 GMT

I suppose I could see a hobbiest using robotics to feed and grow cells.

Maybe when the vision SDK gets more advanced a robot could count cells and tell the difference between good cells and damaged cells...

Re: Microsoft Robotics Studio

tgraupmann — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 17:38:29 GMT

Is anyone working this robotics technology in the biotechnology sector? There were 140 biotech companies around Lake Washington in 2000. I'm sure AmGen (the biggest biotech company last time I checked) would be interested in partnering with this kind of technology.

Re: Microsoft Robotics Studio

georgioc — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 16:58:52 GMT

Sinohelbur wrote:

Everytime that i was running a sample, there would be a warning saying that can't find TOWERAPI.DLL,and after i reinstalled the MRS SDk,just as the warning suggested, the warn-message window would be there still. Wishing some help can be offered here. Thanks.

Hi, i assume you are using the LEGO RCX. Please post your question in the robotics newsgroups and we or others in the community that are already running with the lego RCX can help you.

Re: Microsoft Robotics Studio

dsptony — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 08:40:10 GMT

Thanks for the reply George, I posted here first then realised my mistake, and posted on the robotics newsgroup. I could not figure out how to delete my post in the channel 9 forum though, so left it.... and here I am writting another message not related to the video, hopefully others will learn from my mistake.

Tony

Re: Microsoft Robotics Studio

Sinohelbur — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 07:16:00 GMT

Everytime that i was running a sample, there would be a warning saying that can't find TOWERAPI.DLL,and after i reinstalled the MRS SDk,just as the warning suggested, the warn-message window would be there still. Wishing some help can be offered here. Thanks.

Re: Microsoft Robotics Studio

georgioc — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 07:14:22 GMT

dsptony wrote:

I develop simple 8 bit microcontroller (mostly Microchip PIC) products and often there is a communications feature. It will generally be measurement but sometimes control over a serial link. Things are changing and now people expect USB (which is a pain for realtime control e.g. cnc mills).

Could anyone tell me if Microsoft Robots Studio is the right tool to develop a user display application that communicates with customized hardware hanging off a laptop's USB port? I had a play with the tutorials and it seems hard to communicate with hardware that is not prepared by the MRS team, is that true or am I just being impatient?

I think I am trying to figure out if this is a tool I can use for work (simple custom electromechanical stuff) or if it is more for fancy robots? I should say that I am a normal engineer so may not be as bright or as fast to pick up new things as the guys at MS. Also I think it is important to realise that people like me are engineers who design hardware and firmware who are interested in getting into application software.... not software guys wanting to get into hardware, I think it makes a difference on the starting point skills. e.g. I have not used VS before, mybe I am not the MRS target customer?

Tony.

Hi as you probably have seen, we replied to your post in the MSRS newsgroup. With CTP2 we will show even more examples of talking to robotics platforms using a serial link and a service front end to abstract the low level communication. In CTP2 we added support for 3 more platforms that are small microcontroller boards very similar to what you describe. Even considering no prior VS experience i think its doable to take one of our services and trivially modify it to talk to your device. If you have any more questions on how to do this we would be happy to help you out, using the newsgroups.

Re: Microsoft Robotics Studio

dsptony — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 08:11:42 GMT

I develop simple 8 bit microcontroller (mostly Microchip PIC) products and often there is a communications feature. It will generally be measurement but sometimes control over a serial link. Things are changing and now people expect USB (which is a pain for realtime control e.g. cnc mills).

Could anyone tell me if Microsoft Robots Studio is the right tool to develop a user display application that communicates with customized hardware hanging off a laptop's USB port? I had a play with the tutorials and it seems hard to communicate with hardware that is not prepared by the MRS team, is that true or am I just being impatient?

I think I am trying to figure out if this is a tool I can use for work (simple custom electromechanical stuff) or if it is more for fancy robots? I should say that I am a normal engineer so may not be as bright or as fast to pick up new things as the guys at MS. Also I think it is important to realise that people like me are engineers who design hardware and firmware who are interested in getting into application software.... not software guys wanting to get into hardware, I think it makes a difference on the starting point skills. e.g. I have not used VS before, mybe I am not the MRS target customer?

Tony.

Re: Microsoft Robotics Studio

Henrik Frystyk Nielsen — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:48:58 GMT

In our next preview we will have more tutorials on this in particular but you can look at the robotics tutorials that we provide with the Studio. They show how to write services for a set of existing robots and there are a bunch of threads discussing this our news group as well linked from [1]

Henrik

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/robotics

Re: Microsoft Robotics Studio

Henrik Frystyk Nielsen — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:38:38 GMT

That's right. Try it out and kick the tires. If you have questions or comments then we would like to hear them on our news group linked from [1].

Good luck!

Henrik

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/robotics

Re: Microsoft Robotics Studio

padu — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 00:26:32 GMT

I'm building my own mobile robot for academic research. I've designed and built the hardware layer, including comm. protocol, both in firmware and in C#.

It's upsetting I had to go through all the trouble by myself. Had I known about this SDK before it would [suposedly] saved me from a lot of trouble.

I'm bound to see the tutorials and get some grease in my hands. If it's that easy, rewriting shouldn't be too difficult heh?

Re: Microsoft Robotics Studio

wifibot — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 07:41:24 GMT

Hello,

I have been working with XP on automatic guided vehicles at INRIA using our own framework in C++ and now with a new one, using .NET and C++ CLI.

I am also using for my own company custom tools on XP to control small robots for education and military purpose for Thales Robosoft and FESTO.

It is really interesting that Microsoft have a Robotic SDK, It will be easy I think to share peace of code between teams now.

We are just beginning evaluating it SDK but it’s a little bit confusing. Is there an easy tutorial how to add our robots to the RSDK?

Great job

Laurent

www.wifibot.com

http://www-rocq.inria.fr/imara/lara2/index.html

Re: Microsoft Robotics Studio

jsampsonPC — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 15:45:04 GMT

Brilliant! Create a way for everybody's grandmother to develop their own personal robots, and then use Microsofts secret embeded code to take control of all of the robots all over the world in the year 2012 to conquer!

This is just a secret scheme by The Gates-Guild to take over the world..you cannot fool me, I've seen iRobot and I know how this stuff works. I'm going to step out of my shower tomorrow morning and see that spinning little "Ouch-again" robot spinning a frenzy of bloody circles chanting, "Hello everybody, hello everybody, hello everybody."

The computers are coming, the computers are coming!

--- On a side note ---

This video is awesome. Can't wait to start dev'n my own robot to do all of my physical labor for me, thinks like pouring the cereal, putting the socks on, and getting my a drink of water when I'm thirsty - you know, make like easier :)