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.

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 commercial version of its software for robots Wednesday, hoping to shape the market much as it did for PC software a few decades ago. Its Robotics Studio includes programming ...

On Wednesday, Microsoft Research introduced Magma, an integrated AI foundation model that combines visual and language processing to control software interfaces and robotic systems. If the results ...

A developer who writes all the software would need expertise in real-time programming, motor control, AI, maybe some image and video processing, and so on. Fortunately, platforms like ROS (Robot ...

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Responding to the requests of industrial customers such as Siemens and Tyco, Microsoft recently made two development tools originally released as part of the Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio ...

Just as Dr. Frankenstein needed brains to bring life to his monster, robotic engineers need software to drive their creations. Apparently, Microsoft would very much like for its Robotics Developer ...

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 ...

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 ...

The members of the Microsoft Robotics Group are betting that the robotics industry is about to take off. Tandy Trower, general manager of the group, predicted that his 3-year-old department, which ...

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 ...