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 ...

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 ...

At the heart of the MSRS runtime is the Concurrency and Coordination Runtime (CCR). It addresses application asynchrony, concurrency, coordination and failure handling. It is a very general framework ...

Microsoft Corp. has released its Window-based robotics software development kit. Called Microsoft Robotics Studio (MSRS), it consists of a visual robot programming language, 3D physics-based ...

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