Microsoft Developing Robotics Software

s31523 writes to tell us Microsoft recently announced the launch of their new Microsoft Robotics Group and the first product release, a software program to help robotics developers. Despite the timing this has nothing to do with the recent abdication by Gates, and was actually instigated by Gates before his departure. From the article "It might take many years, but Microsoft believes robotics could present a big opportunity as the market grows, said Tandy Trower, general manager of the Microsoft Robotics Group. He cited estimates predicting that consumer robotics alone will grow into a multibillion-dollar industry in five to 10 years."

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I for one welcome our Borg-enabled Bill G

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but I have to question why our slashdot image of Microsoft remains of a robotic-enhanced Borg Bill Gates, when it should most likely be a Chair-tossing Borg, or some other Microsoft individual, now that Bill has announced he's retiring to run the Gates Foundation instead of Microsoft.

Or should it perhaps be a half-Bill half-???? cyborg mix, or even a two-headed Borg, to represent the transitional state as Bill Borg is phased out in favor of a more chair-tossing-enabled Borg?

That said, all this use of robotics and software will end badly. At least, that's what the Governator of California predicts ...

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