News Articles and ReviewsMicrosoft Sponsored Competitions- You Make IT Smart
Microsoft in Switzerland is running a program called "You Make IT Smart" to introduce students to Robotics Developer Studio using LEGO NXT robots. It is open to students of Swiss educational institutions and is a lead-in to the Imagine Cup in 2009. So far the response has been very good. For more information visit the web site. Even if you cannot participate, you might find some of the materials useful. - Microsoft RoboChamps
The RoboChamps Urban Challenge is an opportunity to win a real car (supplied by KIA Motors). Competitors must program a simulated car to drive around a course, stopping at red traffic lights and staying on the road while avoiding other vehicles. The cars are fitted with a variety of simulated sensors which must be used for navigation. Participants are not allowed to control the car themselves, so it all comes down to the quality of the artificial intelligence written into the program. - RoboDevelopment Conference and Expo 2008
Microsoft sponsored the RoboDevelopment Conference and Expo in 2008 and also in 2007. These included technical sessions and in 2008 a keynote by Tandy Trower. These events were great opportunities for team members to meet customers and discuss Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio. - FIRST 2008- Seattle Regional Championship
Microsoft is sponsoring a new FIRST Robotics Competition Seattle regional event for 2008. - Robocup 2007
Microsoft sponsored RoboCup 2007 in Atlanta and hosted competitive soccer matches using the Microsoft Robotics Studio. The matches were simulation-based and hosted within the Microsoft Robotics Studio physics-based 3D simulation environment which uses the licensed PhysX™ engine from AGEIA™ Technologies Inc. - MEDC 2007
Microsoft Robotics Studio powered the sumo robot competition at Microsoft Mobile & Embedded DevCon (MEDC) 2007 in Las Vegas in May 2007 and in select cities around the world.
Scientific PapersCool RobotsPartner Technology Releases - SimplySim LEGO NXT Environment
SimplySim, a Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio partner, has released an application that allows you to control either a simulated LEGO® NXT Tribot in a rich 3D environment or a real Tribot. SimplySim created the simulation environments for the RoboChamps competitions and have considerable experience with the RDS Simulator. To download the package, which requires RDS 2008, visit the SimplySim news page. - Braintech Releases New Vision Software for Service Robots
The VOLTS-IQ SDK adds high-performance vision services to Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio including the Vi_Tracker service for real-time tracking as well as Vi_ObjectDetector (a service for simultaneously detecting the presence of multiple object types), Vi_WebCam (an augmented webcam service), and Vi_MissileLauncher (for controlling the DreamCheeky USB missile launcher). - Robosoft simulated robuDOG package for Microsoft Robotics Studio (1.5)
Robosoft's robuDOG, which was first presented at RoboCup 2007 in Atlanta, can now be programmed using Microsoft Robotics Studio (1.5) Simulation. - Kuka Educational Framework for simulating articulated arms and more
Enables students to exercise their robots using the Microsoft Robotics Studio simulator. The framework contains tutorials for manipulating stationary arms, mobile platforms including an arm (gripper), as well as tasks for dealing with kinematics and a variety of sensors such as a laser range finder. - RoboticsConnection provides Serializer Services for Microsoft Robotics Studio
RoboticsConnection releases Microsoft Robotics Studio services for their Serializer controller - RoboRealm vision processing integration with Microsoft Robotics Studio
RoboRealm provides a smart camera interface that allows you to include machine vision within the Microsoft Robotics Studio platform. The integration service can either provide the resulting processed image from RoboRealm and/or include any variables generated by RoboRealm for use in further processing. - SRI KARTO Mapping Technology for Robot Developers
The SRI KARTO package enables developers of mobile robot solutions to easily integrate navigation and mapping intelligence into their applications using Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio. KARTO uses a type of algorithm referred to in the field as SLAM - Simultaneous Localization and Mapping - to allow the robot to build a map of an unknown environment. A video on the web site shows how this works in the RDS simulator.
User Groups- MSRS community in Turkey
This Microsoft Robotics Studio community is working on unmanned aerial vehicles and other robot projects. Read more in this post by Oguz Bayrakdar, the Community Leader, to our forum. - Norwegian .NET User Group
The Norwegian .NET User Group has a lot of activities around Microsoft Robotics Studio. Check out their web site or contact Sondre Bjellås for details on news and upcoming events. - Conscious-Robots.com pages for MSRS
The Conscious-Robots.com research team is performing a number of experiments with autonomous mobile robots. These community pages include information, MSRS services, C# sample code, and resources for the programming of Pioneer 3 DX robots using MSRS. - Seattle Robotics Society
The Seattle Robotics Society is a non-profit corporation formed in 1982 to serve those interested in learning about and building robots. It is comprised of a diverse group of professionals and amateurs, high school students and college professors, engineers and tinkerers.
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