July 14, 2006
Microsoft Unveils Windows Software It Hopes Will Become Standard for Robotics
If Microsoft has its way, robots of the future will run Windows. To try to have robot brains wired with its computer code, the company recently unveiled Microsoft Robotics Studio, a software platform for controlling various functions of robots.
Academics are one target audience for the software, which could be used by professors building robots for teaching or research purposes.
Tandy Trower, general manager of Microsoft Robotics Group, compared the robot industry today to the
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