This is an interesting one. Rob Caron suggested it as the perfect inexpensive (as in free) Christmas present for the geek you can’t find a gift for.
Microsoft Robotics Studio does just what it says on the tin. It’s a platform for developing small to medium scale robots. It integrates with the .NET Platform meaning that you can write some of your execution logic using C# or VB within VS 2005 or VWD Express. It’s run-time is service oriented and it seems to be able to take advantage of a fair number of .NET libraries (I’ve only just downloaded it, so I’ve not got the hang of this yet).
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