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Imagine a world with Windows-powered robots that can perform house chores, schedule appointments or walk the dog. It may turn into a reality now that Microsoft has ventured into robotics, a field long ...

Microsoft on Wednesday took the wraps off its first commercial operating system for robots, with hopes of paving the way for a broader robotics industry and taking a central role in its development.

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 ...

If Microsoft has its way, robots of the future will run Windows. To try to have robot brains wired with its computer code, the company recently unveiled Microsoft Robotics Studio, a software platform ...

Microsoft is presenting a vision of how industrial robots could work more closely with people by harnessing IoT (Internet of Things), cloud networking and 3D sensing technologies, linked through ...

New Yorkers claim New York City to be the capital of many things: media, arts, fashion…but is the Big Apple also “robot city”? The New York Software Industry Association (NYSIA) convened a panel of ...

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 ...

The problem facing Microsoft developer Jordan Correa and his wife was hardly an uncommon one. They both have full time jobs (that's not the problem), but they also have an adorable dog Darwin that is ...

If Microsoft has its way, robots of the future will run Windows. To try to have robot brains wired with its computer code, the company recently unveiled Microsoft Robotics Studio, a software platform ...

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