Members of Microsoft's Robotics Group are confident robotics is going to be the big story of the next five years. Visit PC Advisor's Microsoft spotlight for the latest Microsoft news and opinion.
Understanding the fundamentals
Trower shows off the iRobot Create, which is designed to help people understand the fundamentals of robots and how to write software to control them. He said the industry needs a standardized software platform, and that's what Microsoft is working on.
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- Inside Microsoft's Robotics Group
- Robots as toys
- May the force be with you
- Understanding the fundamentals
- A PC on wheels
- Pink cheeks and a bright yellow smile
- First simulate, then build
- Back of the net
- Two wheels good, two arms better
- Caring for the elderly
- Here to help
- Life as a learning experience
Comments
Keith Holdsworth said: Microsoft look like theyve seriously lost their way The robots are like ms platforms so complicated that they miss the point In this day and age any more aides will only make people more lethargic Help the less able bodied to walk or have motabilityor a verbal translator etcbut not more overblown toys please