{"id":1357,"date":"2011-09-19T13:35:44","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T12:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1357"},"modified":"2011-09-19T13:35:44","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T12:35:44","slug":"kinect-robots-from-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/09\/19\/kinect-robots-from-microsoft\/","title":{"rendered":"Kinect robots from microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=epredator\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I was researching some robot options for The Cool Stuff Collective and I bumped into the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roboticsathome.com\/\">Microsoft Robotics at home<\/a> (US based) competition. It would appear there is now a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/robotics\/\">MS Robotics software dev kit<\/a> (Developer Studio 4). However the really interesting part is that there is a reference design for some hardware that is based around using the kinect for the machine sensing and vision.<br \/>\nParallax appear to be taking orders <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parallax.com\/eddie\">for a piece of kit called Eddie<\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.parallax.com\/Portals\/0\/Images\/Prod\/2\/289\/28990-M.jpg\" alt=\"eddie\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.parallax.com\/eddie\">It comes assembled or in kit form<\/a> and I have to say this looks really interesting.<br \/>\nI have not found any UK references to this yet. So it looks like I will need a windows 7 laptop as well now then!<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.feedingedge.co.uk%2Fblog%2F2011%2F09%2F19%2Fkinect-robots-from-microsoft%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><div name=\"googleone_share_1\" style=\"position:relative;z-index:5;float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><g:plusone size=\"tall\" count=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/09\/19\/kinect-robots-from-microsoft\/\"><\/g:plusone><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was researching some robot options for The Cool Stuff Collective and I bumped into the Microsoft Robotics at home (US based) competition. It would appear there is now a MS Robotics software dev kit (Developer Studio 4). However the really interesting part is that there is a reference design for some hardware that is<br \/>\n            <span class=\"excerpt-readmore\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/09\/19\/kinect-robots-from-microsoft\/\"><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[425],"class_list":["post-1357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-robots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1358,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions\/1358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedingedge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}