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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. 2 year old technology by figleaf · · Score: 4, Informative

    Robotics studio was made a paid product 2 years ago.
    Looks like they did not get enough buyers and its being offered for free now!
    And looks like it hasn't been updated in last few years.

    Regarding CCR, .Net 4.0 has made vast improvements in multi-core API.
    I don't see how much relevant CCR will be given the release of Task Parallel Library (TPL) for .Net and ConCRT for C++

  2. Re:Where can I get a robot? by westlake · · Score: 4, Informative

    Great, so where can I get a cheap compatible robot and what kind of stuff can I program it to do?

    These are MSDN sites.

    So be prepared for information overload.

    Microsoft Robotics: 3rd Party Hardware

    Microsoft Robotics Developer Center

    This page is an introduction to robotic simulation, with some nice screen shots of the VSE sample environments: Simulation Overview