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by Stephanie Neil, MA Editorial Staff
Posted on Tuesday, June 20, 2006 5:44:00 PM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    Microsoft Corp. today offered a sneak preview of a development platform for creating robot applications that leverages the company's foundation technologies to reduce development costs and create standards for unifying incompatible hardware and software. Built around its Windows operating system and .NET application development tools, Microsoft Robotics Studio is said to be flexible enough to create applications for robots of all sizes, from simple consumer to complex industrial models. The development environment also includes simulation software, which is based on the PhysX engine from AGEIA and enables developers to simulate robotic applications using realistic 3D models. The simulation technology lets users design sophisticated robot applications without actually having the hardware, Microsoft pointed out. At the RoboBusiness Conference & Exhibition in Pittsburgh, KUKA Robot Group and CoroWare Inc. demonstrated some of the applications that Microsoft Robotics Studio will enable. For example, KUKA controlled its lightweight robot prototype via a remote joystick using Microsoft Robotics Studio services, and CoroWare demonstrated Surveyor 3000, its mobile service robot, which can be remotely operated or programmed to run semi-autonomously. [Click to continue] |
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