Microsoft Robotics Blog

Hi all, My name is Loke, I’m the Sr. Product Manager here at the Robotics team in Microsoft....

Date: 06/29/2012

The Seattle Mini-Maker faire will be at the Seattle Center on June 2nd and 3rd over the weekend. If...

Date: 05/29/2012

The wait is finally over! We announced the winners of the Robotics @ Home competition at Maker Faire...

Date: 05/22/2012

The Robotics @ Home competition officially closed on April 30th and we now have the final...

Date: 05/15/2012

Today, we’re delighted to announce the general availability of Microsoft Robotics Developer...

Date: 03/08/2012

A new release of Robotics Developer Studio 4 Beta 2 is now available that is an update to the Beta...

Date: 12/07/2011

The Kinect sensor is one of the best devices, for its price, to become available for robotics in the...

Date: 11/29/2011

The romote control has come along way from the first remote patent by Nikola Tesla in 1898 and the...

Date: 11/15/2011

It’s estimated that 3.5 trillion photos have been taken since the first pinhole camera. Even...

Date: 10/27/2011

The samples from the book "Professional Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio" have been updated to...

Date: 10/09/2011

In my July blog post, we announced the Kinect Services for Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio (RDS)...

Date: 09/17/2011

If you are in New York on the weekend of the 17th and 18th of September, come along to Maker Faire...

Date: 08/27/2011

One of the Robotics Team developers, Emil Gustafsson, has turned his own learning experiences with...

Date: 08/17/2011

A new book titled Robot Development Using Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio has been released by...

Date: 08/15/2011

Watch how the Lowell Team from the University of Massachusetts use Surface and RDS to build a very...

Date: 08/10/2011

These are exciting times for Robotics. It is clear that the convergence of technologies and secular...

Date: 07/13/2011

This is a cool hexapod robot that's built using the Lego Mindstorm kit with logic written using the...

Date: 06/29/2011

Microsoft together with their partner, Georgia Tech, developed a comprehensive course for teaching...

Date: 03/18/2011

Stacy Harris and John Mullinax were the key people behind the University of Michigan project to use...

Date: 10/13/2010

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Lowell Robotics Lab have used a Microsoft Surface as...

Date: 08/25/2010

The Robotics Developer Studio (RDS) Simulator is a key feature of the package that allows you to get...

Date: 08/09/2010

This partner update includes news from the RDS partners Studica and Robosoft. Studica News Studica...

Date: 06/29/2010

Taking a look back at the recent past in the robotics industry reflects a period full of promise,...

Date: 05/20/2010

As part of a "Cloud Computing in the Commute" class at the University of Michigan, students have...

Date: 04/23/2010

This week sees the celebration of the first National Robotics Week in the US. Since the foundation...

Date: 04/12/2010

Young Joon Kim in Korea maintains a web site about Robotics Developer Studio called Hello Apps. He...

Date: 02/25/2010

In early December iRobot launched a new web site called SPARK - Starter Programs for the Advancement...

Date: 12/21/2009

A video entitled CCR at MySpace has been released on Channel 9. It describes how the Concurrency and...

Date: 10/07/2009

The Learn Page on the Microsoft Robotics web site is designed to help you find relevant content from...

Date: 09/08/2009

CoroWare has opened the source of the ClassPack product line. It is now freely available on...

Date: 08/26/2009

A series of introductory videos about RDS is being released over the coming weeks. These are...

Date: 07/29/2009

Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 R2 Microsoft has announced the availability of the Robotics...

Date: 06/18/2009

Due to customer demand, both Robotics Developer Studio (RDS) 2008 Standard Edition and CCR and DSS...

Date: 04/22/2009

Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio Standard and Academic Editions have the ability to import...

Date: 01/16/2009

SimplySim has released an application that allows you to control either a simulated LEGO® NXT Tribot...

Date: 12/31/2008

Last month a special event was held in Korea (Oct 8th to Nov 3rd) - It was the RoboChamps Korean KIA...

Date: 11/06/2008

The CCR and DSS Toolkit 2008 has been released and is now available for purchase online. The...

Date: 10/29/2008

Microsoft recently announced the launch of the RoboChamps Urban Challenge, sponsored by KIA Motors....

Date: 10/20/2008

The RoboChamps Amazed Challenge is over and the winners have been announced. However, the Challenge...

Date: 08/01/2008

The July Community Technical Preview (CTP) of Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 is now...

Date: 07/19/2008

The Robocup 2008 Nao Simulation package is now available from Aldebaran Robotics. This package is...

Date: 05/09/2008

Microsoft announces the first Community Technical Preview (CTP) of Microsoft Robotics Developer...

Date: 04/09/2008

The video posting below captures a run of the robuRIDE-28 a passenger car developed by Robosoft. The...

Date: 03/20/2008

At the Ground Robotics Capabilities Conference held earlier this month, Braintech demonstrated the...

Date: 03/19/2008

At the Pierre-Gilles de Gennesʼs scientific exhibition opening, ROBOSOFT, a Microsoft Robotics...

Date: 03/13/2008

If you are interested in an introduction to Microsoft Robotics Studio you can find Vlad’s talk here....

Date: 02/29/2008

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