Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 Academic Edition

  Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 Academic Edition
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Microsoft® Robotics Developer Studio 2008 (RDS) is a Windows-based environment for hobbyist, academic and commercial developers to create robotics applications for a variety of hardware platforms. RDS includes a lightweight REST-style, service-oriented runtime, a set of visual authoring and simulation tools, as well as tutorials and sample code to help get started.
End-to-End Development Platform

RDS enables developers to create services for a wide-variety of robot hardware.
Non-programmers can create robot applications using a visual programming environment.

Microsoft Visual Programming Language enables anyone to create and debug robotics programs very easily. Just drag and drop blocks that represent services, and connect them. It is also possible to take a collection of connected blocks and reuse them as a single block elsewhere in the program.

Simulate robotics applications in 3D physics-based virtual environments

Easily simulate robotics applications using realistic 3D simulated models. Microsoft Visual Simulation Environment (VSE) includes AGEIA™ PhysX™ Technology from AGEIA Technologies Inc., a pioneer in hardware-accelerated physics, enabling real-world physics simulation for robot models. PhysX simulations can also be accelerated using AGEIA hardware.

AGEIA and PhysX are trademarks of AGEIA Technologies Inc.