Robotics

My guest this week on Channel 9, Frank Krueger, isn't just using the Xamarin Robotics library for controlling his little homemade robot, he's writing it! Just days off of an ascent of Kilimanjaro, Frank gets back to real life and gives us a formal introduction to this slick little critter and tells…

Robots! You all know that there's isn't a Visual Studio and Robots post or series that I don't like. That and the fact that this one also includes Arduino, which we don't cover to often, well.. here you go! Programming Robotic Systems with Visual StudioIf you'd like an introduction to programming…

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.