Microsoft Robotics Studio CTP Now Available

The world for hobbyist and enthusiast developers just got a little more interesting today with the announcement that Microsoft's getting into robotics. Robotics Studio is a development tool designed to provide a uniform and consistent way to program robots including a visual design surface to model robotics programming whether your need is for work, (like Kuka's industrial robots) or for fun (like the Lego NXT). The programming model uses the concurrency and coordination runtime (CCR) and you can program robots in VB, C#, C++, or even browser JavaScript.  

• Download the Tech Preview
• Read Tandy Trower's letter to the community
• Visit the Robotics Studio Home Page
• Read the Robotics Studio team blog
• Read about the programming model
• Official Press Release
• View the Channel9 Video (link coming soon)

We'll definitely be adding more Robotics Studio content to Coding4Fun in the future

Comments

• Anonymous
  June 20, 2006
  > We'll definitely be adding more Robotics Studio content to Coding4Fun in the future
  
  That would be some good news indeed. Seems like Coding4fun content used to be updated much more frequently. Did all of the authors run out of ideas or were they all in the same unfortunate bus accident?
• Anonymous
  June 20, 2006
  LOL,
  
  I can assure you that everyone is alive and well. We've had content ready to go but our publishing systems on MSDN have been backed up and it hasn't gotten out. There should be some very cool stuff on there by end of week. We'll likely have a Coding4Fun v2 later this year so I'd love to hear what feedback you have on what you'd like to see.
  
  Thanks,
  -Dan
• Anonymous
  June 20, 2006
  Dan Fernandez's Blog : Microsoft Robotic...
• Anonymous
  June 22, 2006
  
  From Dan Fernandez's Blog entry ;The world
  for hobbyist and enthusiast developers just got...