Robotics at Microsoft
A few years ago, Tandy Trower, a long-standing fixture at Microsoft, met with many people in the robotics industry to determine what their greatest needs were. Trower met with robotics researchers both in academia and in the commercial industry. He also considered the needs of hobbyists and students. His research resulted in a wish list, similar to the following:
Easily configure sensors and actuators and be able to run them asynchronously
Start and stop software components dynamically
Monitor the robot interactively and as it is operating
Allow more than one person to access a single robot or allow one person to access multiple robots
Reuse software components across robots
The needs Trower identified were simple and fell into ...
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