Adam Kinney blog posts filtered by a specific taghttp://adamkinney.com/blog/tags/robotics/default.aspxen-usTue, 02 Dec 2008 22:33:12 GMTOxite<p>A tech preview of <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=66d1363e-36a4-46be-ad36-01bcfbfb4969&amp;displaylang=en" target="_blank">Microsoft Robotics Studio</a> was released this week, you can find an accompying <a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=206574" target="_blank">Channel 9 video here</a>.&nbsp; This is very exciting and a lot of my co-workers have acquired robot-building fever, but one of my favorite releases was the Microsoft Robotic Finger found on the <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/robotics/" target="_blank">Robotics Dev Center on MSDN</a>.</p><p><img src="http://msdn.microsoft.com/robotics/art/20083_565x160_robotics_M.jpg" alt="Microsoft Robotic Finger" width="565" height="160" /></p><p>Which I found to be a well done reference to&nbsp;Michelangelo&#39;s Creation of Adam:</p><p><img src="http://www.arikiart.com/nude-art/images/nude-art-adam-finger-god.jpg" alt="adam finger god" width="288" height="161" /></p><p>This leads to the idea that some day our creations may have a bit more <em>free will</em> beyond the average <a href="http://www.irobot.com/sp.cfm?pageid=122">Roomba</a>.</p><img src="http://adamkinney.com/blog/147/aggviewbug/default.aspx" alt="" />http://adamkinney.com/blog/147/default.aspxhttp://adamkinney.com/blog/147/default.aspxWed, 21 Jun 2006 23:12:00 GMThttp://adamkinney.com/blog/147/default.aspxAdam Kinney0http://adamkinney.com/blog/147/trackback/default.aspxChannel 9robotics