In Show #8, I look at the Concurrency and Coordination Runtime (CCR) and the Decentralized Software Services (DSS) capabilities of the runtime environment. This is really the heart of Robotics Studio and the primary engines for ensuring the responsiveness, accuracy, and flexibility of the entire system.
Posts Tagged Robotics
Robotics Studio
May 30
For Show #7, I wanted to talk just a bit about Robotics Studio. I’ve been doing a number of talks around it, but I wanted to let those who haven’t been able to make it to the launches, TechFests, CodeCamps and other events hear just a bit about it.
Show #8 will be a continuation about some of the deeper pieces of Robotics Studio that can help you even if you don’t have motors and blinking lights in your solution.
I’ll take two of them
May 13
Video from the Maker Faire for the Wall-E automata. http://gizmodo.com/search/wall_e Evidently it’s going to be $190 so that will probably bump back to just one (though I really would love to have a spare for replacement parts since I know I’ll want to mod one.
Robotics Studio Wiki
May 2
If you’re working on RoboChallenge Competitions (or any other Robotics project for that matter) you’ll probably be interested in the Channel9 Robotics Studio Wiki – http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Channel9.MSRoboticsStudio
Chewy Chong (DE for Signapore) is doing videos for RoboChallenge. Very Cool! I managed to meet him up in Seattle last summer and he’s a bundle of energy and enthusiasm. Maybe I can put a bot up against him and see how we do.
Found on the RoboChamps site
Apr 28
There’s a lot of great information on the RoboChamps learning area, but I did see something that tied directly into the free books offer that Chris had on Friday. There’s a free sample chapter for you Roboticists up on the RoboChamps site! Grab a copy here and make the most of your robot in the challenges!
RoboChamps Amazed Challenge
Apr 28
If anyone has been working with the bot for the Amazed Challenge, note that the Corobot configuration used on this challenge has a Phidgets 8/8/8 Interface kit installed on the physical device (not connected by default on the shipped bot.) Might be useful later on when real hardware comes into play. 
I did want to note that Dezhen Song at Texas A&M was one of the award winners for his work in Human Robot Interaction. His work with Ken Goldberg at UC Berkeley won them a spot in a very prestigious list. Take a look at this year’s awards for the full story on what the award is about, and the work that all of the winners did. Everything from a social snack bot to disaster rescue bots, to work towards a robotic wheelchair that can be deployed to the real word!
Bravo to all that participated in the program!
RoboChamps is Live!
Apr 24
Between the H3 launch talks on Robotics Studio and the support our own local National Instruments gave to this year’s FIRST competition (with local teams Chap Robotics and Lasar Robotics participating, I was already writing up a nice blog post about how popular work with robotics can be. (Even if it can get a little dangerous!)
Well, for those out there who don’t have a local robotics team, or just want to practice up on the off season, RoboChamps just went live today! What is RoboChamps? Simply a way to get some practice and enjoyment out of learning how to program robots of various types and under different environments. Challenge some of the most creative, experienced, and enthusiastic roboticists that you know and want to know, and possibly even win a chance to head out to PDC this year to do final battle with real atoms and, if you win, walk away with a robot of your own.
I’m already there and registered, I look forward to seeing everyone online and testing my bot smarts against everyone. And for those here in Austin, there’s the off chance I’ll have an additional announcement as well – cross your fingers!
(and this should apply to a lot of people, judging by how raw my throat is today) The new CTP is out for Robotics Studio – it went up today. URL is http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=EB00C558-2163-45A5-BEFE-531AD48BC525&displaylang=en – let me know what you think! And yes, VS 2K8 is supported, so you can get some great use out of any launch copies that you might have.
