Robotics Studio 1.5 Released

Written by Raúl Arrabales Moreno

Thursday, 19 July 2007

Microsoft Robotics Group has released the second official version (1.5) of Microsoft Robotics Studio. This version can be downloaded from this link.

For those of you who don't know what Robotics Studio is, let me quote Microsoft: The Microsoft Robotics Studio is a Windows-based environment for academic, hobbyist and commercial developers to easily create robotics applications across a wide variety of hardware. Key features and benefits of the Microsoft Robotics Studio environment include: end-to-end Robotics Development Platform , lightweight services-oriented runtime, and a scalable and extensible platform.

Microsoft Robotics Studio (1.5) is a significant update to Microsoft Robotics Studio (1.0). It includes support for Windows CE, greatly improved documentation, runtime optimizations, and many other new features. Optional packages provide support for robot sumo competition and simulated soccer competition.

For more information, please see Tandy Trowers' welcome letter:

Welcome to Microsoft Robotics Studio (1.5)

In December 2006, we released version 1.0 of Microsoft Robotics Studio. Since that time, we've been at work on a number of improvements and enhancements. Thank you for the great feedback and suggestions we received. In April this year we started previewing 1.5 and now we are pleased to announce it as an official release to the Web. This release extends our objective to deliver to the entire robotics community, a toolkit that enables students, hobbyists, researchers, and commercial developers to develop applications and provide a catalyst for what we see as an exciting future (as reflected in Bill Gates' essay that appeared in the January 2007 issue of Scientific American).