Microsoft gets into robotics
Joe Wilcox analyzes yesterday's announcement that Microsoft is getting into robotics with an SDK.
Update: Channel 9 has a video with the team.
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June 20th, 2006 at 10:44 am
The big RoboBusiness Conference and Exposition is going on NOW. Microsoft is a gold sponsor.
http://www.robobusiness2006.com/
June 20th, 2006 at 11:00 am
“Please turn off all other robots and try again..”
June 20th, 2006 at 11:01 am
Robotics, nano-technology, genetics - is Microsoft prepping themselves to be a key stakeholder in our future?
Tom
June 20th, 2006 at 11:41 am
[...] Original post by Robert Scoble Written in Uncategorized, microsoft [...]
June 20th, 2006 at 5:49 pm
How about change the name of this blog to “Silicon Valley Geek Blog”? sounds cool enough to me
June 20th, 2006 at 9:36 pm
Too bad the Cylon’s weren’t running Microsoft SDK backend’s, could introduce and process new hardware or trigger a new action slash update and bingo, BSOD. Humanity saved by Microsoft…
June 21st, 2006 at 8:33 am
The geeky robot makers were at Robogames last weekend. Yes, the computers I saw were mostly Windows ones.
My boys made a video:
http://funnystories.blogspot.com/2006_06_01_funnystories_archive.html
June 21st, 2006 at 10:02 am
Didn’t Sony just kill off Aibo (its consumer robot dog) and the whole of the company’s robotics unit a few months ago?
Predicting the future is hard. Or rather, predicting the *timing* of events in the future will happen is hard. See, there’s no doubt that in the future, advanced robots will be pervasive throughout society. That’s easy. The difficult question is: when? Clearly, Sony placed its bet way too early; I wonder if the MS timing is better, or if it’s still too early?
June 21st, 2006 at 2:28 pm
Be Afraid … Be VERY Afraid …
Heh.
:-p
June 21st, 2006 at 7:35 pm
“Today, Microsoft unveiled Robotics Studio, for creating robotic applications. As usual, the toolset creates stuff for the Windows world, so Mac OS and other operating systems be damned.”
SO what would the robots do when Windows is hacked or infected by a virus? Lol
June 21st, 2006 at 11:40 pm
I know this question is not relevent to the post, but this is a place visited by lot of experienced professionals.
I have been working on Microsoft technologies for last 10 years. Is it advisable to move to Java technology as it is imminent because my company is opted for it?
June 22nd, 2006 at 9:52 am
Is there any domain where Microsoft wouldn’t wield considerable influence, in future?
June 22nd, 2006 at 12:46 pm
Microsoft just dominates.
Phil
June 22nd, 2006 at 4:13 pm
The same question here:
Is it advisable to move to Java technology as it is imminent because my company is opted for it?
June 23rd, 2006 at 7:07 am
LOL
I can imagine it now…
Powered Armor refusing to boot up and BSoDing away, tanks going beserk bcause Chinese hackers have found inroads into their navigational systems and IFF transponders.
I forsee a new era in robotics. The Bill Gates Era. We must embrace it. (j/k)
June 23rd, 2006 at 11:50 pm
There goes our remote controls will be infected oh shut those bluetooth devices else….
http://www.irin.co.uk
September 11th, 2007 at 7:33 pm
I don’t know if this is a great idea, what is the robot equivalent to the Blue Screen Of Death?