Yes, so much more can be said about this, but because we are developers, we know that a line of code worth more that a thousand word, so let’s just see how we could apply our skills in building real robots. And most of all we do have real robot in this very moment, roaming the surface of the planet Mars, exploring the depths of our oceans, building cars and airplanes and even vacuuming our homes. We are just entering the multi-core era, the price for hardware becomes cheaper and cheaper almost every day and the number of developers being capable of writing good software is as never high. But now it is all slowly but surely coming together. Later when we had the software we were lacking the computational power. Now we know: you can’t have intelligence without a more or less sophisticated software. In fact in 50s and 60s people envisioned it as a purely hardware task. We are now in the same situation with the emerging field of robotics.īut wait a minute, wasn’t the robotic revolution been promised by science fiction writers and futurists, so many times, for so long, and somehow it is always ‘just coming’? Well it took us longer than we thought. And yet those that dared to enter this new realm became pioneers in a whole new page in the history of the human technology. Many times the field of robotics has been compared to the early days of the information technology revolution, 30 years ago gigs were primarily working with electronics and only a few considered writing software as a cool and inspiring. But would we want to? Wouldn’t that be a waste of our time?
So what about all of us who have great experience with a high level managed code? Do we have any chance to do something in this area? Apparently, and fortunately, the answer to this question is ‘Yes, we do’.
Most software written today is for web, desktop or server applications and only a few dare to enter the field of robotics, and even they in most cases are primarily involved with a low level code, very close to the hardware. Using Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio with Lego Mindstorms NXT Robot - Simple Talk
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