Microsoft hands out Kinect sensors to student robotics competition. Microsoft hands out Kinect sensors to student robotics competition. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering ...

Microsoft has today launched its Robotics Developer Kinect Toolkit for commercial use. This groundbreaking toolkit allows robot builders to integrate Microsoft’s Kinect motion sensor into their builds ...

The new Kinect included with the Xbox One could serve as a significant leap forward as computerized eyes for robots, said Cornell University computer science professor Ashutosh Saxena in an interview ...

Microsoft’s Kinect is being hacked left, right, and center, with all sorts of exciting uses in its future. But Willow Garage, purveyor of research humanoid robots, has created the best mashup yet: ...

Makers, developers, and hobbyists who have a spare Microsoft Kinect gesture-based controller lying around may be interested in a new DIY human-following robot. This innovative project has been created ...

Microsoft has released the latest version of its Robotics Developer Studio, which includes support for up to four Kinect sensors. Microsoft has released the latest version of its Robotics Developer ...

About a month ago, we wrote about a robot that a Microsoft employee built to keep his pet company during the day. Its creator, Microsoft Robotics test developer Jordan Correa, used a Kinect to serve ...

Robotics engineers are using the Kinect motion-sensing controller, which lets people play video games hands-free, as cheap sensors to help robots "see" their surroundings and operate autonomously.

On the heels of its Kinect for Windows software development kit (SDK), Microsoft is making available a spinoff of it that works with its robotics development toolkit. On July 13, Microsoft made ...

Abstract: With the introduction of the Microsoft Kinect for Windows v2 (Kinect v2), an exciting new sensor is available to robotics and computer vision researchers. Similar to the original Kinect, the ...

It is estimated that over 3.5 trillion photos have been taken since the invention of the modern camera almost 200 years ago -- and with the exception of satellites and unmanned drones, almost all of ...