Microsoft Robotics Studio

摘要

Moving towards standardization of robot development, the company which is the leading operating systems provider, Microsoft, has started an initiative in that direction. They have unveiled Microsoft Robotics Studio, a software development tool that can be used for a wide range of robots, ranging from industrial robots to robots available to consumers. This tool can be compared to what DOS was for the PC market in the early days. With this product, Microsoft aims to provide a common technological platform that the industry lacks at the moment. The Robotics Studio tool incorporates several components like a programming environment for coding and debugging the software similar to Visual Studio, a virtual runtime environment that functions as an operating system for robot, and also a simulator on which programmers can model their robots, and also test how robots will behave to their software without having to build and test their code on an actual robot.