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At Maker Faire UK I wanted to have an exhibit anyone could interact with. So I took along my robots and modified one of the Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio (MRDS) Visual Programming Language (VPL) examples to allow both speech and Xbox controller...
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I'm taking part in the Microsoft Windows Embedded European Tour - doing the Turin and Stockholm gigs later this month :-) I shall be presenting the Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio session and including as many demos as possible. A1-DW is to heavy...
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Aldebaran have provided a CTP of the Nao simulation for Microsoft Robotics Studio's soccer simulation. Find more details here .
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Marc Mercuri gives Tina Wood the details and the demo of the RoboChamps challenge: RoboChamps: My robot is bigger than your robot
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Here is a view of the Amazed challenge maze. Note the traps complete with 'laser' triggers :-) It seems such a scaring place to seen my little CoroBot into!!
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Yes!!! Robochamps.com is now live. The first of the RoboChamp challenges has been released along with the availability of the web site. The AMAZED challenge places you in control of a CoroBot from CoroWare. The maze is not just a normal maze - it is filled...
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Today I was at the Open University attending a robotics in the curriculum event. The event, organised by Dr Ashley Green (of Walking with robots, RoboCup Jr and Roberta activities), was designed to bring together educators and industry to share ideas...
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Just a shout out to say I've been working on building some services for the White Box Robotics PC Bot 914. This work has been a bit delayed due to various reasons but I'm making good head way now. My plan is simple. Working from the good work...
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Birmingham ICC saw the UK launch for Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 - three of the big developer products from Microsoft. I attended to show Microsoft Robotics Studio on a small stand along with colleague Andy Sithers who...
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Robot devs at Braintech which produces the VOLTS-IQ vision additions for Microsoft Robotics. Robert discusses the various stuff in the SDK (Note 1.6 is out now) and also highlights a wireless camera they are developing for the Lego NXT system. The camera...
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I'm playing with my robots again. This time I want voice control. I discovered that my Bluetooth headset doesn't deliver the quality required by the Windows Vista Speech Recognition function, so I was looking for another headset to use. I can...
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Hey take a look at my latest toy. The MSN USB Missile Launcher from Dream Cheeky. This is not only a super fun USB powered missile launcher but it also includes a USB web cam installed on top. Perfect for playing with BrainTech's Volt-IQ Visual Intelligence...
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What technology will you be playing with over Christmas? A new computer, a new home theatre set up, or maybe a new robot? Or are you just happy to be at home playing on your existing kit? Now we have comments working :-) why don't you leave a note...
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One of my other endeavours during November has reached daylight. During the summer Ian Robson, of Future Publishing, and I cooked up the idea of a Robotics supplement for PC Plus. The accessibility of robotics to normal people has improved greatly over...
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I was able to attend the First Lego League 'Power Puzzle' challenge tournament at the Imperial War Museum at Duxford last weekend. Duxford, an old WWII fighter air base, has an enormous collection of commercial and military planes. The FLL tournament...