Robotics

Trevor Taylor, Program Manager in the Microsoft Robotics team walks us through the features of the latest Kinect Services for RDS toolkit. Demonstrating support for the Kinect camera via Kinect for Windows SDK.Also be sure to check out this blog post for an update on all things Microsoft Robotics…

Robotic technologies can be applied to many aspects of our lives including some that may not seem as obvious. We have all seen scifi movies where there are many robots running around assisting in our daily lives of the future. However what about now? In this video Stacy Harris and John Mullinax…

This week on Channel 9, Dan and Brian discuss the week's top developer news, including: Windows Phone Blog - Terry Myerson - Windows Phone 7 RTM'd Dave Anson - LayoutTransformer assembly enables WPF-style layout transformations in WP7 Indy from Oz - Windows Phone 7 Listbox pagination with…

The Microsoft Surface Blog is linking to a Doctoral Thesis Defense that will be streaming live at 1PM eastern today (in 9 minutes) that will preview a system to directly control robots via a Microsoft Surface Computer. For more details see the Surface Blog, or watch the live stream here.

With the launch of the new R3 version of Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio I sat down to talk about the product with Trevor Taylor, Program Manager with the Microsoft Robotics product group. Microsoft Robotics combines a number of components to make up a robotics system including…

In this multipart article series, we’ll cover: Project overview Developing the phone application Building the robot Creating the phone user experience Session WPH 314 – Coding4Fun: Learning Windows Phone 7 Development by creating a robotic t-shirt cannon!

Take a break from your hectic day to join Laura & Paul as they bring you all the top stories that were being sent around Microsoft this week. Stories like :A Private CloudBill Gates: Device vision- back in 2007Microsoft is so VERY SocialRobotics for FREE

We have a chicken or egg issue here. Do we talk about how to build the robot, or about the software needed to run it? Since the hardware choices directly determine how the software will be developed, we have to think about how to make the robot safe and at the same time functional. No one wants a…

I think the best way I can describe this project is by telling the story of how I got into this. While playing a bit of xbox 360 at 7:52 p.m., I see a legendary email come in: Clint, Scott Guthrie would really like to have a cannon on stage at MIX this year that would allow him to fire t-shirts…

Brian Jepson, from Make Magazine, along with Szymon Kobalczyk posted about their chance to play with the FEZ line of .NET-Powered microcontroller kits.  GHI Electronics makes them and can be found over at www.tinyclr.com.  The FEZ mini costs about $50 dollars.  Adding on sensors is…