The problem facing Microsoft developer Jordan Correa and his wife was hardly an uncommon one. They both have full time jobs (that's not the problem), but they also have an adorable dog Darwin that is ...

Microsoft Tuesday released the preview version of a software tool kit for building robot applications, pledging to ignite the robot market in the same way it did the PC market some 20 years ago.

The Microsoft Robotics Studio is Microsoft’s answer to a common robotics platform. Technology editor Bill Wong takes a look at the new platform running on the Whitebox Robotics 9-Series PC-Bot ...

If Microsoft has its way, robots of the future will run Windows. To try to have robot brains wired with its computer code, the company recently unveiled Microsoft Robotics Studio, a software platform ...

Microsoft on Wednesday took the wraps off its first commercial operating system for robots, with hopes of paving the way for a broader robotics industry and taking a central role in its development.

If you are looking for the tome that reveals all with respect to Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio (MRDS) then this is it. At over 800 pages, there is little that this book does not cover in depth.

Imagine a world with Windows-powered robots that can perform house chores, schedule appointments or walk the dog. It may turn into a reality now that Microsoft has ventured into robotics, a field long ...

Maybe it's the robotic dog resting in the corner or the R2-D2 Star Wars droid on the floor, but Tandy Trower's office is not a typical workstation found on the Microsoft Corp. campus. Trower heads the ...

Microsoft is funneling $1 million over the next three years to create an Institute for Personal Robots in Education at Georgia Tech and Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania. The colleges are also ...

If Microsoft has its way, robots of the future will run Windows. To try to have robot brains wired with its computer code, the company recently unveiled Microsoft Robotics Studio, a software platform ...

Microsoft released the preview version of a software toolkit for building robot applications on Tuesday, pledging to ignite the robot market in the same way it did the PC market some 20 years ago. The ...

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