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Microsoft's New Attempt To Dominate Robotics

Posted by timothy on from the more-robots-in-more-places dept.

An anonymous reader writes "IEEE Spectrum reports that Microsoft's Robotics Group is announcing new world domination plans — at least for the robotics world. The company is making its Robotics Developer Studio (RDS), which includes Microsoft's CCR and DSS runtime toolkit, available to anyone for free. Why make it a freebie? Because the company wants to expand its RDS base and get a grip on the robotics development space, hoping big things will come out of it."

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  1. Hasta La Vista by binarylarry · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sounds like a plan to me.

    When the robot uprising starts, there'll be a million ways to crash the fuckers.

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    1. Re:Hasta La Vista by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      "Must kill all humans.. Error.. please reboot me"

    2. Re:Hasta La Vista by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Hasta La Vista
      Best pun I've seen in hours

    3. Re:Hasta La Vista by JustOK · · Score: 2, Funny

      C#-rated

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  2. Re:bad quote by TapeCutter · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Does Microsoft make anything that isn't slow, bloated, and fully integrated into skyne--I mean .NET?"

    Notepad.

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  3. Success breeds success! by rueger · · Score: 1, Funny

    Good on MS for building on their twenty years of technical marketing triumphs like the MS mouse, the wavy keyboard, the Zun... ah... did I mention the mouse?

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  4. The joke has come true! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    "The day Microsoft makes a product that doesn't suck is the day they start making (robotic) vacuum cleaners."

  5. iRobot by copponex · · Score: 4, Funny

    DUDE: Robot, grab me a beer.
    iROBOT: I'm sorry, Steve says those are bad for you.
    DUDE: What the fuck?
    iROBOT: Would you like some water with a splash of lemon instead?
    DUDE: No, I just want have a beer and play a little... where is my Halo 5?
    iROBOT: There was a cutscene that showed a nipple, so it has been discarded. I have replaced it with "Yoga For Everyone." Would you like me to show you some poses? We can...
    DUDE: No, please, go ahead and get started with out me. I'm just going to go find this receipt I've been looking for...

    1. Re:iRobot by Ethanol-fueled · · Score: 5, Funny

      DUDE: Robot, grab me a beer.
      iROBOT: I'm sorry, Steve says those are too fattening for you.
      DUDE: What the fuck would Steve recommend, then?
      iROBOT: Apple martini.

    2. Re:iRobot by Alwin+Henseler · · Score: 2, Funny

      You're doing it wrong:

      DUDE: Robot, grab me a beer.
      iROBOT: I'm sorry, Steve says those are bad for you.
      DUDE: Robot, sudo grab me a beer.
      iROBOT: One beer coming up, master.

    3. Re:iRobot by RevWaldo · · Score: 4, Funny

      You're still doing it wrong - this is Windows after all.

      DUDE: Robot, grab me a beer.
      iROBOT: I'm sorry, Steve says those are bad for you.
      DUDE: Robot, runas /user:Administrator grab me a beer.
      iROBOT: iRobot has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.


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  6. I for one... by LukeWebber · · Score: 2, Funny

    Welcome our new, blue-screened robot overlords.

  7. Re:bad quote by castorvx · · Score: 2, Funny

    To be fair, it takes a lot of memory to store one level of undo.

  8. Re:But it has a basis in the business model. by CannonballHead · · Score: 4, Funny

    Clearly you are a troll. Your anecdotal, uncited evidence was obviously inferior to the parent's anecdotal, uncited evidence. ;)