Microsoft Updates Robot Dev Kit

Published: April 14, 2008, 6:00 am

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Microsoft Updates Robot Dev Kit The software titan wants to make sure it doesn’t miss what so far has been a slow moving market. You don’t have to watch “I, Robot” or “Star Wars” for the 14th time to get the point that one day robots will likely play important parts in our lives. After all, robots have been making cars since the 60s, and the early 2000s saw the arrival of robotic dogs and vacuum cleaners. However, despite more than a century of literary robots, they have yet to become ubiquitous in our lives. One contributor to the slow proliferation of robots to date has been the lack of a standard platform to simplify development of robotics applications. Tandy Trower, general manager of Microsoft’s robotics group and one of the company’s longest continuous employees with 26 years under his belt, hopes to change that. The company Wednesday released the first community technology preview (CTP) of its new Microsoft Robotics Developer

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