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Archive for August 19th, 2006

Revolutionary Robots

Saturday, August 19th, 2006

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A Forbes special feature includes several well-written articles on robotics and how they are changing the world. One of the articles has an interview with Soren Lund (featured on the magazine cover) and describes how the LEGO Mindstorms NXT is “helping bring what was once considered esoteric engineering into the hands of enthusiasts everywhere in the world.”

Introduction to Robotics Studio Simulations

Saturday, August 19th, 2006

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The Microsoft Developer Network has added a video introduction to simulations within Microsoft Robotics Studio — a Windows-based development environment to create robotics applications.

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George Chrysanthakopoulos outlines the advantages of simulating robotics in a virtual environment and demonstrates remote joystick navigation with the LEGO Mindstorms NXT.

Update: NBC Beta 1.0.1 b6

Saturday, August 19th, 2006

Just a day following the last beta release, a new beta of the command line Next Byte Codes compiler has been released (1.0.1 b6).  No change history information is available at this time.