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Microsoft announced this year’s upgrade to its platform for designing robotics, adding both internal and external performance tweaks, new visual programming tools and a bump in cost of about $100. -- 11.18.08 More
Are secondary schools' robotics competitions seeding engineers with holistic thinking? -- 11.14.08 More
Responding to the requests of industrial customers such as Siemens and Tyco, Microsoft recently made two development tools originally released as part of the Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio available in their own separate toolkit. -- 11.11.08 More
Matrox Imaging added frame grabbers, Dalsa Corp. added machine vision cameras, and Cognex invites manufacturing professionals to its free machine vision seminars. -- 11.10.08 More
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