Robotics

Today's Hardware Friday post is a different idea of how robot navigation can be made much simpler and easier using QR codes... Robot Navigation Made Easy With QR CodesGetting a robot to know where it is and navigate to new locations is a tough problem that needs Bayesian particle filters,…

Microsoft had a huge presence this year at Maker Faire 2013 in NYC! People visiting the Microsoft Maker Faire tent got to get hands-on with a wide range of cool tech like Project Spark, an animatronics workshop, the Coding 4 Fun Boxing Bots, and more. Makers got to see and experience technology that…

Today's Hardware Friday post comes to use via Friend of C9 (I guess this is a Friend of... week, isn't it?), Rob Miles. It's also another of those non-Microsoft related projects, but it does look really cool and fun, it's different and it's also something that can be used to to introduce young and…

Today's project is an cool inspirational example of how the Kinect and Kinect for Windows SDK can be used as part of a robot to provide some human like behavior, like following you with its "eyes" as you move about the room... Humanoid robot torso A1[Machine Translated] A larger project in…

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!