Microsoft Releases Robotics Studio Free

from Erico Guizzo at IEEE Spectrum:

Over the past year or so, Microsoft’s robotics group has been working quietly, very quietly. That’s because, among other things, they were busy planning a significant strategy shift.

Microsoft is upping the ante on its robotics ambitions by announcing today that its Robotics Developer Studio, or RDS, a big package of programming and simulation tools, is now available to anyone for free.

The Microsoft RDS supports a number of hardware platforms, including the Lego Mindstorms NXT, iRobot Create and Parallax Boe-Bot, and it provides a physics-based simulation environment to allow you to test your designs.

(please to note: the download is almost 500MB)

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2 Comments

  1. Robert
    May 26, 2010 at 6:42 pm

    Kudos to Microsoft….perhaps the next new technology will be born and the funk the U.S. is in right now will be replaced with new energy and enthusiasm!….

  2. __ew__
    May 26, 2010 at 7:19 pm

    Neat, but their licensing is still restrictive

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/robotics/bb521232.aspx

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