AllThingsD » Ballmer-bot http://allthingsd.com Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:05:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/logo-rss.jpg All Things Digital http://allthingsd.com/ 144 22 Part Man. Part Machine. All Ballmer. The Future of Corporate Leadership http://allthingsd.com/20080603/ballmer-bot/ http://allthingsd.com/20080603/ballmer-bot/#comments Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:29:11 +0000 John Paczkowski http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20080603/ballmer-bot/ Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates delivered his last scheduled speech as the full-time chairman of Microsoft (MSFT) this morning. He spoke at length about Microsoft’s application development plan, the August debut of Internet Explorer 8 and the company’s efforts to compete with Google (GOOG). But all paled in comparison to his discussion of Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio and the egg-throwing Ballmer-bot created with it. Transcript and video below …

Robot: Developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers; developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers.

Bill Gates: Good; we’ve got the Ballmer-bot pretty excited here. It’s an amazing-looking robot. It’s just balancing itself, and fantastic.

Patrick Deegan: Yeah, what you see here is the latest in robotics technology. The Ballmer-bot features a dynamically stable mobile base, a rotating torso and two dexterous arms. This makes it so that it’s even able to throw eggs.


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