personal technology

Ask PoFo
News/Sites
Speculate
Participate
Book/Media Reviews
Events
Glossary

Microsoft Wants Into Robotics Market

Submitted by Zinger on July 24, 2006 - 12:05.

Microsoft
News
personal technology
robotics

URL:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060722/tc_nm/column_pluggedin_robots_dc_2

Description:

Microsoft Robotics Group is a nine-person operation with the modest trappings of a start-up company but which has the backing of $44 billion software giant.

Search

Navigation

home
post content on PoFo

News

Concise Encyclopedia Book and CD-ROM: Special Price from The Britannica Store
Radium discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie: 21 December 1898 - This Day in History
Florence Griffith Joyner: Biography of the Day
Snails and humans use same genes to tell right from left
Ancient African exodus mostly involved men, geneticists find
Newly identified gene powerful predictor of colon cancer metastasis
Two cardiovascular proteins pose a double whammy in Alzheimer's
Patient-derived induced stem cells retain disease traits
New 'smart' materials for the brain
Ariane 5 ? Sixth and final launch of 2008
[SPECIAL/NEWS] BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR: Reprogramming Cells
[SPECIAL/NEWS] BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR: The Runners-Up
[SPECIAL/NEWS] PHENOMENON OF THE YEAR: European Big Science
[SPECIAL/NEWS] BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR: Scorecard
[SPECIAL/NEWS] BREAKDOWN OF THE YEAR: Financial Meltdown
[SPECIAL/NEWS] BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR: Areas to Watch
[NEWS] THE TRANSITION: Nobelist Gets Energy Portfolio, Raising Hopes and Expectations
[NEWS] THE TRANSITION: Obama's Choice to Direct EPA Is Applauded
[NEWS] MALARIA: Signs of Drug Resistance Rattle Experts, Trigger Bold Plan
[NEWS] NUCLEAR PHYSICS: DOE Picks Michigan State Lab for Rare-Isotope Accelerator