July 18, 2008

RoboTurk - Unmanned Aerial Disaster Emergency Video System

  RoboTurk is a great example of technology being used to help save lives. It uses Microsoft technology at the core to perform some very complex tasks. "RobotTurk is a prototype Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) equipped with a camera that is capable of streaming live video of disaster struck areas to ground command stations. The helicopter carries onboard an eBox compute-unit that runs Microsoft Robotics Studio, allowing the robot to