Looks like software giant Microsoft has unveiled a preview of their robotics studio.
Today at RoboBusiness Conference and Exposition 2006, Microsoft Corp. showcased the community technology preview (CTP) of a new Windows®-based environment for academic, hobbyist and commercial developers to easily create robotic applications for a wide variety of computing platforms. In addition, early adopter companies, universities and research institutes offered demos and provided support for the new Microsoft® Robotics Studio development platform. The community technology preview of the Microsoft Robotics Studio is available for download at http://msdn.microsoft.com/robotics.
Some bullet points of the package:
- End-to-end robotics development platform.
- Lightweight services-oriented runtime.
- Scalable, extensible platform.
The coolest part of this development package is that it will work with the new LEGO Mindstorm NXT CPU.
[via MAKE]