Microsoft shuts down its Robotics Group

[Andre Kesteloot]

*Microsoft Shuts Down Its Robotics Group
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In 2007, Bill Gates wrote his influential "A Robot in Every Home" article
in *Scientific American*, envisioning a future "in which robotic devices
will become a nearly ubiquitous part of our day-to-day lives." Two years
earlier, Gates had asked one of his top lieutenants, Tandy Trower, also a
big believer in robotics, to lead a group with the bold mission of bringing
robots into the mainstream. Last week, word got out that, as part of its
current restructuring, Microsoft decided to shut down its robotics group.
At a moment when excitement about the future of robotics seems to have
reached an all-time high, Microsoft has given up on robots.


http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-software/microsoft-shuts-down-its-robotics-group/
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