Microsoft Robotics Blog

A typical robot perceives it’s surrounding through an array sensors and interacts with its environment by orchestrating the reaction across one or many actuators. For a decent operation these activities must be performed simultaneously and possibly across...

Microsoft Robotics Studio offers a Partner Program, commonly referred to as MSRSPP that features companies that endorsers and utilizes Microsoft Robotics Studio in their product offerings. The featured companies fall into the categories of: ...

Microsoft participates in the RoboBusiness Conference and Exposition as a gold sponsor. In addition, Microsoft will deliver a conference session outlining its perspective of the robotics market and will host a technical seminar for hobbyist, commercial...

The inaugural Robo-Development Conference and Exposition was held in San Jose October 25th and 26th where Microsoft was the founding sponsor . This multifaceted educational forum and trade show's primary focus was on design and development of commercially...

Microsoft has sponsored RoboCup 2007 in Atlanta and will host competitive soccer matches using the Microsoft Robotics Studio. The matches are simulation-based and will be hosted within the Microsoft Robotics Studio physics-based 3D simulation environment...

We’ve observed a high CPU utilization when using enumerable datatypes with binary serialization/intranode interaction. Performance degradation is most noticeable when a List (or Array) contains many items and/or the frequency of use is very high. The...

With the invitation by Profesor Daniele Nardi I will be delivering a talk ‘A Techncial Introduction to Microsoft Robotics Studio’ at the University la Sapienza in Rome. This talk is now scheudled for the 12 of April 10:00am Room: Aula 1, Location: Via...

The 2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) will be held in Rome Italy - April 10th to the 14th. Microsoft Robotics Studio is a Gold Patron and would hosting a booth at this event. Tandy Trower, General Manager for Microsoft...

If you are an academic or non-profit robotics researcher , then you may be interested in the following news announced last week. Our colleagues in Microsoft Research (External Research & Programs department) launched a new worldwide robotics...

Robotics have played a critical role in the acceleration of biomedical knowledge most notably in the Human Genome Project. This event will illustrate the use of Microsoft technology in the life sciences including Microsoft Robotics Studio. The meeting...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Urban Challenge is the third in a series of competitions held by this agency to foster the development of autonomous robotic ground vehicle technology. This weekend the Urban challenge came to a closure...

At RoboBusiness Conference and Expo 2007 held in Boston MA, Karto demonstrated their web-services-based mapping technologies in cooperation with Robosoft. The demonstration consisted of a Robosoft robuLAB 80 mobile platform with a SICK S3000 CMS laser...

Here's a set of links to the MEDC 2007 sumo competition videos. You may have seen these videos on MEDC blogs prior, but per popular request I am posting these links here as well. Final sumo match: http://msdn.microsoft.com/robotics/media/Final_Sumo_Match...

In April 2007 we started previewing Microsoft Robotics Studio (1.5) through the Community Technical Preview (CTP) releases. We have now officially released the product as a Web download. In addition to advances and improvements in the runtime and design...

With the collaborative effort of Orange and Robosoft , Orange Telecom fiber customers will be able to enjoy a remote tours of palace of Versailles. Especially these customers will be able to view rooms that are inaccessible to the general public. To enable...

Maker Faire is a two-day, event that celebrates engineering, science projects, arts, and crafts, with a Do-It-Yourself attitude. This year’s event boasted 45,000 attendees and the Faire seemed even crazier than last year, with power tool drag racing,...

Once more again Microsoft participated in the RoboBusiness Conference and Exposition as a gold sponsor . RoboBusiness Conference and Exposition is a key industry event dedicated to the growth and development of the robotics and intelligent systems. The...

Europe is well into the development of new transportation systems that are based on small automated vehicles that could be utilized by either people or freight delivery in cities. These “cyber cars” would offer on-demand door-to door service. Participating...

Dan Waters, has posted a set of video content for students and enthusiasts looking to learn Microsoft Robotics Studio. Content ranges from level 100-200; progressively gets more advanced as one works through the tutorials. You can get the tutorials...