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.

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 ...

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 ...

If a century of movies has taught us anything, it's that humanity will one day be enslaved by sadistic robot masters with death rays. Doing its part to make this glorious vision a reality, Microsoft ...

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.

Yes, it's true. And no, despite the timing, it's not a case of the company's engineers taking Microsoft on a crazy tangent now that Bill Gates is shifting away from his day-to-day oversight. Gates, in ...

Microsoft has always invested in the field of Artificial intelligence (AI), but so far, its efforts have been focused on the software side of things. Now, the company has announced that it is bringing ...

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 ...

Microsoft is working to bring the Linux-based Robot Operating System (ROS) to Windows. Microsoft is promising to support Windows ROS with Visual Studio integrated development environment tooling. It's ...

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 ...

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 ...