nir Posted September 28, 2018 Share Posted September 28, 2018 Microsoft is bringing ROS, a set of libraries and tools for building complex robots, to Windows and Azure. Microsoft is working on an "experimental" release of the Robot Operating System (ROS) for Windows. Microsoft's goal with this move is to "bring the intelligent edge to robotics," officials said on September 28, across home, education, commercial and industrial robots. Microsoft has joined the ROS Industrial Consortium, which is focused on extending ROS to manufacturing for industrial robotic applications. Microsoft is working with Open Robotics and the ROS Industrial Consortium to bring ROS1 to Windows. ROS is a set of libraries and tools for building complex robots. (ROS on Linux already exists.) As of September 2018, Core ROS had been ported to Windows already. Microsoft's goal is to allow developers to use Visual Studio plus various AI and cloud services, including Azure Cognitive Services, Windows Machine Learning, Azure IoT cloud, in building robots. At ROSCon 2018, Microsoft demonstrated a Robotis Turtlebot 3 robot running the ROS release known as "Melodic Morenia." "The robot runs Windows 10 IoT Enterprise on an Intel Coffee Lake NUC using a new ROS node which leverages hardware accelerated Windows Machine Learning," explained the company on its ros-win page. According to that page, Microsoft also showcased a ROS simulation environment running in Azure, and demonstrated a swarm of robots running in a virtual world connected to an orchestration system and controlled via Azure IoT Hub. "Microsoft will host the Windows builds for ROS1 and shortly ROS2, as well as provide documentation, development and deployment solutions for Windows," according to the page. Recently, Microsoft has been relatively quiet about how and when it's planning to participate in the robotics space. But there are various robotics projects and initiatives happening at the company. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karlston Posted September 28, 2018 Share Posted September 28, 2018 Dateline November 2019... Microsoft has announced a small issue with its Robotic Operating System (ROS). It appears that a programming glitch has made robots running ROS, kill humans. The code to specify "no harm to humans" has been accidentally mis-coded to specify "harm humans". Microsoft has commented that it's a minor issue resulting only in a small number of deaths. When asked why this issue wasn't picked up by their much-vaunted Robotic Insiders, Microsoft said that they have not received any issue reports from the Robotic Insiders, so aren't aware of any problems. This reporter has been unable to contact any Robotic Insiders for comment. It's almost like they've all disappeared off the face of the earth... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted September 28, 2018 Share Posted September 28, 2018 22 minutes ago, Karlston said: Robotic Operating System (ROS). They will end up putting it on hold nothing so far they done with it has been successful. I dont believe nothing they say unless it comes out in Windows 10 and still they may remove it , they lied about things they was going put in Windows 10, Windows 8 and Windows 7 so why would you believe it before you see it?Windows 10 passes 700 million devices, 1 billion still far off I wonder are they counting all the people who rolled back or reinstalled a clean install of Windows 7 or Windows 8.1? just like they count pirated users who gets it for free and people who got it for free the 1st year ,Windows XP proved millions of users dont care about updates . They not sold nothing yet... On top of that the Windows market is shrinking every year.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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