This is very cool. Will try to find out more …And yes, you need Windows for the cool stuff. like speech.
Check out the Evolution website. They have a very cool video which shows how you can turn your laptop into a robot.
If you’re going to build a robot, your choices for SDKs are usually only on Linux or embedded systems. But now, Evolution Robotics has a SDK for Windows developers.
The Windows version features the core navigation and vision technology of the original breakthrough SDK. Patent-pending vSLAM navigation enables robotic devices to operate completely autonomously with knowledge of their environment and surrounding objects using a single low-cost camera. Also included is Evolution Robotics’ object recognition technology, which is already being used to support vision functionality in consumer robots such as Sony’s AIBO.
In addition, the Windows version incorporates Microsoft’s speech support. This, combined with critical infrastructure and core documentation tailored to the Windows environment, gives companies increased flexibility in developing advanced software tools needed to engineer powerful, autonomous applications quickly and easily.
[Via Engadget]
