Free robotics software for windows

Microsoft Robotics Studio - create robotics applications across a wide variety of hardware The Microsoft Robotics Studio software was designed to be a Windows-based environment for academic, hobbyist and commercial developers to easily create robotics applications across a wide variety of hardware. This installation package installs the Microsoft Robotics Studio along with samples and tutorials.
The goal of the Microsoft Robotics Studio is to supply a software platform for the robotics community that can be used across a wide variety of hardware, applicable to a wide audience of users, and development of a wide variety of applications.
As a platform, our intent is also to enable third parties to supply support for new hardware, technologies, and tools, just as Microsoft Windows provides a platform for others to bring their products and technologies to the community of PC users. So while we may populate our platform with some of our own contributions, those should not be considered exclusive to tools or libraries provided by other parties looking to provide interesting technologies for this platform.
The Microsoft Robotics Studio delivers three areas of software:
- A scalable, extensible runtime architecture that can span a wide variety of hardware and devices. The programming interface can be used to address robots using 8-bit or 16-bit processors as well as 32-bit systems with multi-core processors and devices from simple touch sensors to laser distance finding devices.
- A set of useful tools that make programming and debugging robot applications scenarios easier. These include a high quality visual simulation environment that uses the AGEIA Technologies PhysX engine.
- A set of useful technology libraries services and samples to help developers get started with writing robot applications.
Our development environment runs on the platforms listed in the section "System Requirements". It can be used to support robots that support these platforms as well as robots that can be remotely controlled from a PC running a supported platform. The remote control can for example be through a serial port, Bluetooth, RF or Wi-Fi. We provide information that can be used by hardware or software vendors to make their products compatible with our development platform.
System requirements:
To use Microsoft Robotics Studio with .NET Framework 2.0 Software Development Kit (SDK):
- .NET Framework 2.0 Software Development Kit (SDK) (x86 or x64)
To use Microsoft Robotics Studio with Visual Studio 2005:
- Any of the Visual 2005 Express Editions, Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition, Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition or Visual Studio 2005 Team System Edition
Notes:
- Important: With the exception of the Simulation Engine, Microsoft Robotics Studio is fully compatible with 64-bit Windows. The Simulation Engine uses the XNA Framework which does not yet support 64-bit Windows so you cant run simulation on 64-bit Windows.
- Important: Microsoft Robotics Studio can be used to develop services that can be deployed on Windows CE. The development tools themselves do not run on Windows CE, only the services developed for Windows CE.

Available in this download is the latest driver for your U.S. Robotics 33.6/56K Voice modem bought between January 1996 and the present, operating under Windows 95/NT 4.0. Copy this file onto a blank floppy disk. Remove all U.S. Robotics modems in Control Panel/Modems. Shut down and restart your computer. When prompted, select Change or Have Disk, and point it to the floppy drive. Select the appropriate model and follow the prompts to finish modem installation.

Soccer Simulation for Microsoft Robotics Studio 1.5.507 provides such useful and interesting simulated soccer services which implement a simulated soccer competition, using the RoboCup specifications for the field environment, plus automatic enforcement of RoboCup game play rules. The robotic players can be a variety of simulated entities ranging from articulated robots, to simple differential drive models.

Requirements: Windows XP/Vista/2003 Server

Sumo Competition for Microsoft Robotics Studio (1.5) 105.507.0 will make users convinced because it provides a simulation environment which hosts sumo competitions as well as a sample sumo player service which can be used in the simulation environment and with physical robots. The sumo competition takes place in a round ring. The inner part of the ring is a non-reflective black surface while the outer part of the ring is brightly colored and reflective.

Two robots are placed within the ring and must remain within the ring. A match consists of three rounds which are each 60 seconds long. A round ends when one robot goes outside of the ring and a point is awarded to the other robot. The point is awarded even if the robot was not pushed out of the ring. The robot with the most points at the end of the match wins. If the round finishes with neither robot leaving the ring, no points are awarded.

Requirements: Windows XP/2003 Server/Vista