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robuRide-28, a fully autonomous GPS based passenger vehicle  

The video posting below captures a run of the robuRIDE-28 a passenger car developed by Robosoft. The car, later renamed as VolvanBUL, is designed to carry 28 passengers, 12 km/h and will be deployed in Vulcania, a French theme park in April. robuRIDE-28/VolvanBUL Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 20, 2008 7:49 PM by JosephFernando | 1 Comments
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Situational Awareness Vision System

At the Ground Robotics Capabilities Conference held earlier this month, Braintech demonstrated the power of its MSRS-based VOLTS-IQ software development kit for concurrently performing high-performance visual awareness across several cameras. The SDK Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 19, 2008 7:56 PM by JosephFernando | 0 Comments
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RobotTurK: Disaster Emergency Video system

In 1999 northwestern Turkey was struck by a 7.4 magnitude earthquake which resulted in the deaths of over 45,000 people and leaving millions homeless. The disaster was compounded by a five-day communication breakdown among the local authorities making Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 27, 2008 6:29 PM by JosephFernando | 1 Comments

Use of VOTLS-IQ SDK with Lego Mindstorm NXT

As indicated in one of my prior blog posts Braintech's VOLTS-IQ SDK provides high-performance vision functionally as MSRS services. One of the new additions to the VOLTS-IQ SDK is a multi-view object detector, Vi_MultiViewObjectDetector, which enables Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2008 8:21 PM by JosephFernando | 1 Comments
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HEREY from Microrobot

Herey is a hexapod robot intended to be utilize by hobbyists as well as academia/Students. Utilizing the services provided by Microrobot, Herey is programmable through Microsoft Robotics Studio’s Visual Programming Language. More information on the robot Read More...
Posted Friday, January 18, 2008 7:09 PM by JosephFernando | 1 Comments
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Home-centric robot to assist people

Robosoft , has now developed and demonstrated a home centric service robot to assist people. The prototype robot was based on ‘robuLab10’ - mobile platform and ‘robuBox’ – robotic middleware based on Microsoft Robotics Studio . The prototype was demonstrated Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 03, 2008 4:27 PM by JosephFernando | 0 Comments
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Robot Learning and Behavior Control

Skilligent , an MSRS partner, has announced the release 1.0 of its Skilligent Robot Learning and Behavior Control System for service robots. The software includes a behavior control and coordination system, task and skill learning functions, computer Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 20, 2007 11:41 PM by JosephFernando | 1 Comments
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MSDN Seminar on Microsoft Robotic Studio (and XNA)

Our MSDN Developer Evangelist team will be hosting a technology day that includes Microsoft Robotics Studio in its morning session. There will be two talks, the first - An Introduction to MSRS. This talk will provide an overview, the application model Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 12, 2007 8:49 PM by JosephFernando | 0 Comments
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Micro/Meso-scale manipulation

The General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab is an inter-disciplinary research center at the University of Pennsylvania . In this lab Microsoft Robotics Studio (MSRS) is used to develop a distributed remote micro/meso-scale manipulation Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 21, 2007 12:55 AM by JosephFernando | 1 Comments
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A growing list of Microsoft Robotics Studio Partners

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: Robot Manufacturers: Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 21, 2007 12:40 AM by JosephFernando | 0 Comments
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3rd Grand Challenge comes to a closure...

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 Read More...
Posted Monday, November 05, 2007 4:42 PM by JosephFernando | 0 Comments
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Request For Proposals: Human-Robot Interaction 2007-2008: “Robots Among Us”

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 research Read More...
Posted Monday, November 05, 2007 12:24 AM by JosephFernando | 0 Comments
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Robo-Development Conference and Exposition

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 Read More...
Posted Saturday, November 03, 2007 9:29 PM by JosephFernando | 0 Comments
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On-Demand Video Tutorials for Microsoft Robotics Studio

Microsoft Robotics team has now released a collection of on-demand video tutorials that supplement those included with MSRS V1.0 release. This training material is now available from http://msdn.microsoft.com/robotics/learn/On_Demand/default.aspx Here’s Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 21, 2007 2:14 AM by JosephFernando | 0 Comments
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Microsoft Robotics Studio (MSRS) September 2006 Community Technical Preview is now available

Microsoft Robotics team has now released its third Community Technical Preview (CTP). Here’s what’s new: http://msdn.microsoft.com/robotics/getstarted/ctp3/default.aspx You can download release from: http://msdn.microsoft.com/robotics/downloads/default.aspx Read More...
Posted Monday, September 18, 2006 9:00 AM by JosephFernando | 0 Comments
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