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Microsoft Robotics products and services enable academic, hobbyist and commercial developers to easily create robotics applications across a wide variety of hardware.

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Featured Resources

July CTP of Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008
July Community Technical Preview (CTP) of Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 is available for download. The release contains a number of exciting new features as well as many new samples and tutorials. For a complete list, please see What’s New.

RoboChamps -- Rumble with Robots!
Microsoft unveils RoboChamps, a simulated robotics league that is open to academics, hobbyists and developers from around the world. RoboChamps is built on top of Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 CTP using the physics enabled simulation environment to provide immersive 3D environments, simulated versions of robots with the opportunity of winning real robots.  

Robocup 2008 Simulation Competition using Nao from Aldebaran Robotics
A Robocup 2008 Simulation Competition package using Nao from Aldebaran Robotics is available for download from Aldebaran Robotics.

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Videos and Webcasts

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Microsoft Robotics Studio Blog 

July CTP of Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008
The July Community Technical Preview (CTP) of Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 is now available for download. This is the 2nd CTP and like the... more
Henrik Frystyk Nielsen
Saturday, July 19, 2008 9:49:00 AM
The MSRS Nao Simulation Competition for Robocup 2008 is now available
The Robocup 2008 Nao Simulation package is now available from Aldebaran Robotics.  This package is designed to work with the updated Soccer... more
Kylej
Friday, May 09, 2008 2:49:00 PM
Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 CTP April Available
Microsoft announces the first Community Technical Preview (CTP) of Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008. The preview contains a large number... more
Henrik Frystyk Nielsen
Wednesday, April 09, 2008 11:17:00 AM
robuRide-28, a fully autonomous GPS based passenger vehicle  
 The video posting below captures a run of the robuRIDE-28 a passenger car developed by Robosoft.   The car, later renamed as VolvanBUL... more
JosephFernando
Thursday, March 20, 2008 11:49:00 AM
Situational Awareness Vision System
  At the Ground Robotics Capabilities Conference held earlier this month, Braintech demonstrated the power of its MSRS-based VOLTS-IQ software d... more
JosephFernando
Wednesday, March 19, 2008 11:56:00 AM
Automation of machines via robuBOX.
At the Pierre-Gilles de Gennesʼs scientific exhibition opening,  ROBOSOFT, a Microsoft Robotics Studio Partner, demonstrated the use of robotized... more
JosephFernando
Thursday, March 13, 2008 9:10:00 AM
Interested in contributing to Microsoft Robotics Studio’s design?
Well then, we may have an opportunity for you!  We are looking for highly creative, innovative, and energetic contributors in the areas of human-... more
JosephFernando
Friday, February 29, 2008 9:54:00 AM
Recorded talk : Microsoft Robotics Studio -- An Introduction
If you are interested in an introduction to Microsoft Robotics Studio you can find Vlad’s talk here.  With this talk you will learn: · &nbs... more
JosephFernando
Friday, February 29, 2008 9:43:00 AM

 

Microsoft Robotics Forums

Microsoft Robotics - Community
A forum for users to share samples, feedback, and engage in general discussion about Microsoft Robotics.

Microsoft Robotics - Concurrency and Coordination Runtime (CCR)
Coding patterns and technical questions about the concurrency and coordination runtime (CCR).

Microsoft Robotics - Decentralized Software Services (DSS)
Service patterns, runtime information, and tools for decentralized software services (DSS). 

Microsoft Robotics - Simulation
Simulation engine, samples, entities and graphics/physics discussion.

Microsoft Robotics - Visual Programming Language
User discussion, diagrams, patterns.

Microsoft Robotics - Hardware Configuration and Troubleshooting
Information on how to setup your robotic hardware, help with porting to MSRS.

Microsoft Robotics News Feed 

July CTP of Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008
July Community Technical Preview (CTP) of Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 is available for download. The release contains a number of exciting new features as well as many new samples and tutorials. For a complete list, please see What’s New.
Henrik Frystyk Nielsen
Friday, July 18, 2008 3:21:37 PM
Microsoft Robotics Team at TechEd in Orlando
Henrik Frystyk Nielsen from the Microsoft Robotics Team will be present at TechEd on Friday, June 06 in the in the RoboChamps booth. You are most likely to find me from 10-12 and again from 2-4 in the afternoon. Looking forward to hearing what you think!
Henrik Frystyk Nielsen
Thursday, June 05, 2008 4:02:10 AM
RoboChamps is live -- are you ready to rumble with robots?
RoboChamps is a simulated robotics league based on Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008. It is open to academics, hobbyists and developers from around the world to compete. Check out the RoboChamps web site and this introductory video on "on10.net" to see what it is all about!

Henrik Frystyk Nielsen
Thursday, April 24, 2008 11:07:23 AM
Mary Jo Foley: Why business users should grab a copy of Microsoft’s new robotics toolkit
Check out Mary's blog on Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 CTP April launch
Henrik Frystyk Nielsen
Wednesday, April 09, 2008 12:41:26 PM
Countdown to RoboChamps launch -- are you ready?
Check out this CNET article - "Microsoft's new gig: Virtual host to robot competitions". The countdown has begun...
Henrik Frystyk Nielsen
Wednesday, April 09, 2008 12:33:33 PM
Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 CTP April Available
Microsoft announces the first Community Technical Preview (CTP) of Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008. The preview contains a large number of new features and improvements which are ready for you to try out and we also have a detailed description of changes from previous versions.

Also check out our blog for more information.
Henrik Frystyk Nielsen
Wednesday, April 09, 2008 10:23:59 AM
Distributed Computing Gets Spruced-Up with CCR/DSS!
CCR/DSS is not just for Robotics - it’ll help you spruce-up your enterprise distributed systems architectures too!
Joseph Fernando
Friday, February 29, 2008 6:34:10 PM

 

Robotics Tutorials

Concurrency and Distribution

Learn More

Learn more with over 30 tutorials.

Check out the Visual Programming Language
Microsoft Visual Programming Language (VPL) is an application development environment designed on a graphical dataflow-based programming model rather than control flow typically found in conventional programming. Learn more   

Powerful physics-based simulation engine
Learn about the physics-based simulation engine, designed so it can be used in a variety of advanced scenarios with high demands for fidelity, visualization, scaling. A novice user can also use simulation with little to no coding experience and develop in a game-like environment. Learn more   

Program your hardware
Take the code you have developed in the Visual Programming Language, and move it from the simulation environment to real world. Control any Microsoft Robotics Studio compatible robot in the same way. Learn more
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