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Microsoft just released Microsoft Robotics Studio, a point-and-click software tool designed to make it easier to program simple robots.  The software can be used with a wide variety of hardware (yes, even your Roomba!) and by a wide audience of users. The software is free to play with for personal or educational use. It's $399 for a developer who uses the Robotics Studio to create a commercial robot.

More than 30 vendors have signed up with a cool-looking range of innovative robotics applications, including RidgeSoft and LEGO, makers of MindStorms NXT -- whose robots can be programmed or directed using the Robotics Studio.

Check out the Microsoft Robotics Studio Blog

Listen to a podcast of Microsoft's Tandy Trower talk about the Robotics Studio 
 
Read the PressPass Q&A with Tandy Trower, General Manager of the Microsoft Robotics Group, about today's release.

Read Waltier Stiers' blog on tutorials for Getting Started with Microsoft Robotics.

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