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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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