Businesses use Microsoft Robotics, but not for robots
InformationWeek | at | by Mike
Think robotics is only good for General Motors' assembly line and vacuuming your floor? Think again. Microsoft's Robotics Developer Studio has a number of components that businesses are using, or thinking about using, for such far-flung things as carded door access and Web messaging services.
Take Tyco, which is using Microsoft's Concurrency and Coordination Runtime, a part of the Robotics Developer Studio, to prevent the company's card-based physical access system from being overloaded.
"The robotics studio has many elements: a graphics suite, models, controls. I don't use any of that," says Stephen Tarmey, a Tyco software architect.