About a month ago, we wrote about a robot that a Microsoft employee built to keep his pet company during the day. Its creator, Microsoft Robotics test developer Jordan Correa, used a Kinect to serve ...

The new Kinect included with the Xbox One could serve as a significant leap forward as computerized eyes for robots, said Cornell University computer science professor Ashutosh Saxena in an interview ...

Robotics engineers are using the Kinect motion-sensing controller, which lets people play video games hands-free, as cheap sensors to help robots "see" their surroundings and operate autonomously.

Microsoft has released the latest version of its Robotics Developer Studio, which includes support for up to four Kinect sensors. Microsoft has released the latest version of its Robotics Developer ...

Microsoft has today launched its Robotics Developer Kinect Toolkit for commercial use. This groundbreaking toolkit allows robot builders to integrate Microsoft’s Kinect motion sensor into their builds ...

Thank you, Japan. I’ll start with that, because it looks like they’ve just helped us produce yet another amazing innovation for the Xbox Kinect. In this case, it’s teleoperator software for ...

Microsoft hands out Kinect sensors to student robotics competition. Microsoft hands out Kinect sensors to student robotics competition. Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has ...

Microsoft’s Kinect is being hacked left, right and center, with all sorts of exciting uses in its future. But Willow Garage, purveyor of research humanoid robots, has created the best mashup yet: ...

It’s been a while since we’ve posted any interesting Kinect hacks. They were coming fast and furious for a while, but this is the first I’ve seen in a while that really makes me happy. Robotics ...

Philipp Robbel, a student at MIT's Personal Robotics Group, has used a hacked Xbox Kinect camera and an iRobot Create kit to make a Roomba-esque KinectBot that can recognize human beings and respond ...

On the heels of its Kinect for Windows software development kit (SDK), Microsoft is making available a spinoff of it that works with its robotics development toolkit. On July 13, Microsoft made ...

Mapping the insides of anything in real time is hard. Certainly harder than it looks in movies like The Dark Knight, where, near the end, a bat-suited Christian Bale dashes through a high-rise, taking ...