Today, as part of Microsoft’s restructuring plan, the Robotics division of Microsoft Research has been suspended, according to a tweet from Ashley Feniello, the current head of the division: Sadly, the Microsoft robotics team has been shut down. My card key stops working tomorrow afternoon… :-/ — Ashley Feniello (@AshleyFen) September 20, …more
As I was saying a couple of weeks ago in reference to ToyBots, it’s may be a bit early from a technology standpoint, but the time is definitely coming — Lego has had some success with their Lego Mindstorms technology, and world creation in the online world — such as SimCity; Minecraft; …more
When we first started OpenCola Inc.., which was originally called “Steelbridge Inc.”, our first application was a distributed search tool called “My Little Robot”. Our cool office, which was on the ground floor of the JWT building in midtown Toronto was filled with hundreds of little robots — none of …more
