14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft is working hard to improve Windows 10 IoT Core, and the Anniversary Edition is bringing support for Intel Joule, the development board that’s often described as the most powerful and innovative to date.
And because Microsoft just couldn’t stay away from the Intel Joule, the Windows Insider Program will be updated in September with a new Windows 10 IoT Core build that will include support for this computer platform.
The software giant is super excited to see Intel Joule being added to Windows 10 IoT Core’s supported platforms list, and to better emphasize the opportunity that developers are getting with this update, the company is unveiling Bamboo, the world’s first robot powered by Windows 10 and Intel Joule.
World, meet Bamboo!
Bamboo runs on the Intel Joule and uses Microsoft Azure and Cognitive Services to provide sentiment analysis and translation, which makes it possible to speak to the robot in absolutely any language on Twitter and then have it translate the text into native English. And what’s more, the robot can understand your mood, Microsoft says, and react accordingly.
And it doesn’t stop here. The robot can “move around and build and understanding of the environment” with an interconnected system made of Intel Joule and Intel RealSense cameras, while all the movements are possible thanks to the EZ-Robot EZ-B control system.
“Using the EZ-Builder software for Windows and a newly released EZ-Robot UWP library, you can design and animate your robots on a Windows PC, as well as auto-generate and export UWP control code to run on the EZ-B V5. We used this functionality to animate Bamboo. The bring up and integration of the EZ-B v5 took just under 6 weeks,” Microsoft explains.
Microsoft demonstrated the new robot at the Intel Developer Forum 2016 in San Francisco, and the company says that anyone can bring their ideas to reality with the Intel Joule and the future update to Windows 10 IoT Core coming in September.