Microsoft has come up with a new Windows-based environment for academic, hobbyist and commercial developers to easily create robotics applications across a wide variety of hardware. It's named Microsoft Robotics Studio. It is bundled with a lot of samples and tutorials.
The main objective of Robotics Studio is to have 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 for development of varied applications. Microsoft Robotics Studio aims three software areas:
- A scalable, extensible runtime architecture for wide variety of hardware and devices
- A set of tools that make programming and debugging robot applications easier
- A set of useful technology libraries and samples to help developers program robot applications better
System Requirements
Microsoft Robotics Studio can be downloaded at Microsoft Robotics Studio official site. The application is about 80 MB in size and can be installed in Windows CE, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows XP. In order to install Robotics Studio, you need to install .NET Framework 2.0 SDK. Download .NET Framework 2.0 SDK. We can use Robotics Studio with Visual Studio 2005. You need to have any of the Visual Studio 2005 editions.
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