Microsoft Robotics Studio (1.5) Released

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"The goal of the Microsoft Robotics Studio is to supply a software platform for the robotics community that can be used across a wide variety of hardware, applicable to a wide audience of users, and development of a wide variety of applications. ..."

Microsoft PressPass - Microsoft Launches Update of Its Robotics Software Platform

"REDMOND, Wash., — July 9, 2007 — Microsoft Corp. today announced an improved version of Microsoft^® Robotics Studio, just months after the December 2006 introduction of its robotics application development toolkit. The new Microsoft Robotics Studio 1.5 adds support for Windows^® Embedded CE 6.0 and Windows Mobile^® 6, which allows developers to more easily deploy advanced scenarios and software applications on embedded platforms of a wider variety and lower cost.

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Microsoft Robotics Studio 1.5 includes improvements to its visual programming language and 3-D real-world-physics-based visual simulation environment, built on the AGEIA Technologies Inc.-based PhysX engine. New services have also been added, including support for vision and speech recognition, expanded documentation and a new editor that makes it easier to configure and target software services for robotics platforms.

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Microsoft Robotics Studio Developer Center - Welcome to Microsoft Robotics Studio (1.5)

"In December 2006, we released version 1.0 of Microsoft Robotics Studio. Since that time, we've been at work on a number of improvements and enhancements. Thank you for the great feedback and suggestions we received. In April this year we started previewing 1.5 and now we are pleased to announce it as an official release to the Web. This release extends our objective to deliver to the entire robotics community, a toolkit that enables students, hobbyists, researchers, and commercial developers to develop applications and provide a catalyst for what we see as an exciting future (as reflected in Bill Gates' essay that appeared in the January 2007 issue of Scientific American). To that end we have loaded this new release with the following:

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Microsoft Robotics Studio v1.5 has RTW'ed.

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