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 ...

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

If you are looking for the tome that reveals all with respect to Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio (MRDS) then this is it. At over 800 pages, there is little that this book does not cover in depth.

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 ...

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 ...

Imagine a world with Windows-powered robots that can perform house chores, schedule appointments or walk the dog. It may turn into a reality now that Microsoft has ventured into robotics, a field long ...

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 ...

Microsoft is funneling $1 million over the next three years to create an Institute for Personal Robots in Education at Georgia Tech and Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania. The colleges are also ...

Maybe it's the robotic dog resting in the corner or the R2-D2 Star Wars droid on the floor, but Tandy Trower's office is not a typical workstation found on the Microsoft Corp. campus. Trower heads the ...

The members of the Microsoft Robotics Group are betting that the robotics industry is about to take off. Tandy Trower, general manager of the group, predicted that his 3-year-old department, which ...

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 ...