December 2, 2007, Beijing: Mr. Tandy Trower, VP and general manager of Microsoft Robotics Team visited UPTECH robotics headquarters in Beijing.
Dr. Zhang Yizhao, VP of Asia Academy of Engineering of Microsoft, and others came to UPTECH robotics, accompanied by the UPTECH ROBOTICS.
Cid Wang, GM of UPTECH Robotics, and Xu Junhui, head of R&D division, accompanied with the visit, and they exchanged views on the individual robot (Personal Robot) and the robotics industry chain development and industry issues and the future with Microsoft.
Mr. Trower expressed his admiration to UPTECH robotics, then preached Microsoft’s strategy with the theme: "A robot in every home", introduced the era of Microsoft's strategy for the robot and the current progress.
After, Mr.Trower and Dr. Zhang watched UPTECH robotics's demo of it’s product "InnoSTAR," "UP-FStar" robots, and other educational robot products, and personally operate the RAPTOR EOD robot.
Finally, UPTECH Robotics and Microsoft reached a record on the direction of Microsoft Robotics Studio business partnership. UPTECH Robotics will help Microsoft promote the Microsoft Robotics Studio development platform, while Microsoft will officially at the Microsoft Robotics Studio provides a variety of products to support UPTECH robotics’s products, such as “InnoSTAR”.
Chinese Simplified only. English version comming soon.
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About Mr. Tandy Trower：
Tandy Trower, general manager for a product incubation project, whose Microsoft career began in October 1981, when Microsoft had just 90 employees. His initial responsibility was the company’s dozen or so BASIC products, but it soon came to include Microsoft’s entire family of programming languages, as well as games and education software. In Trower’s 24-year career, he has also managed the first two releases of Windows, helped to launch Microsoft’s eHome division and helped foster the company’s overall focus on user-interface design, including the founding of its first usability labs. |
