Microsoft Dreamspark has recently added new applications to its arsenal of Microsoft designer and development tools. Expression Studio 3, Robotics Developer Studio 2008 R2, and XNA Game Studio 3.1 are ...

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 ...

Microsoft has released Robotics Developer Studio (RDS) 2008 R2, an upgrade to the existing 2008 version. The Express Edition is available for free from the Microsoft Download Center (Offline ...

Microsoft released the preview version of a software toolkit for building robot applications on Tuesday, pledging to ignite the robot market in the same way it did the PC market some 20 years ago. The ...

I popped into the Microsoft tent at Maker Faire yesterday and spied the new Robotics Developer Studio 4, a beta product that allows programmers to control robotic platforms from within Windows.

Redmond, Wash. – Microsoft has announced general availability of its Robotics Developer Studio 2008 (Microsoft RDS), the newest version of its robotics programming platform. Microsoft RDS includes a ...

Yes, it's true. And no, despite the timing, it's not a case of the company's engineers taking Microsoft on a crazy tangent now that Bill Gates is shifting away from his day-to-day oversight. Gates, in ...

Microsoft says it's making strides with its forthcoming tooling platform for developing robotics applications. Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 (RDS 08) may appeal to a small segment of ...

In the early 2000s, Microsoft was all-in on robotics. By the middle of that decade, the company seemingly had all but abandoned the robotics space. But this may be the year that Microsoft may be ready ...

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 ...

They roam around the couches and cubicles in an open room at Microsoft. A robot with arms and legs that can do gymnastics, the Roomba self-guided vacuum, a lightweight Lego robot for hobbyists, and a ...

Microsoft believes the demand for consumer, research, and military robots will grow significantly–and it wants to own the market. At the annual RoboBusiness conference this past June, the software ...