Microsoft released the preview version of a software toolkit for building robot applications on Tuesday, pledging to ignite the robot market in the same way it did the PC market some 20 years ago. The ...

Microsoft pulled the curtain back on its Microsoft Robotics Studio at the RoboBusiness and Exposition 2006 in the eastern state of Pennsylvania. "What was brought to the table today was an application ...

Microsoft seems all set to work its magic through robotics, just as it did with the PC business. The $40-billion software giant is entering the field of robotics with its first-ever software. The ...

Microsoft has highlighted its interest in software for consumer robotic applications with the first demonstration of robotics software aimed at home users, schools and universities. Microsoft gave ...

The days when Microsoft vowed to stick to its knitting on the desktop are long gone. These days the software giant seems to be into everything from internet telephony to anti-virus software to search ...

On Wednesday, Microsoft Research introduced Magma, an integrated AI foundation model that combines visual and language processing to control software interfaces and robotic systems. If the results ...

Maybe it's the robotic dog resting in the corner or the R2-D2 Star Wars droid on the floor, but Tandy Trower's office is not a typical workstation found on the Microsoft Corp. campus. Trower heads the ...

Microsoft Research has given a glimpse at some of its prototype data center robotics efforts. In a paper for Hotnets, the team said that "this marks the beginning of a fundamental shift in how we ...

Just as Dr. Frankenstein needed brains to bring life to his monster, robotic engineers need software to drive their creations. Apparently, Microsoft would very much like for its Robotics Developer ...

The members of the Microsoft Robotics Group are betting that the robotics industry is about to take off. Tandy Trower, general manager of the group, predicted that his 3-year-old department, which ...

The International Federation of Robotics says that 2005 sales of robotics reached $8.4 billion and are projected to expand annually by 40 percent. Sure, such projected growth is quite optimistic and ...