Welcome to Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 4
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/msroboticsstudio/archive/2012/03/08/welcome-to-microsoft-robotics-developer-studio-4.aspx
Parallax robotic kits Eddie Robot Platform
http://www.parallax.com/eddiehttp://www.generationrobots.com/eddie-robot-platform-parallax,us,4,Eddie-Robot-Platform.cfm
Robotics Home Competition
http://www.roboticsathome.com/finalists/
Robot Operating System
“ROS (Robot Operating System) provides libraries and tools to help software developers create robot applications. It provides hardware abstraction, device drivers, libraries, visualizers, message-passing, package management, and more. ROS is licensed under an open source, BSD license.”
Robotics at Google
Google I/O 2011: Cloud Robotics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxXBUp-4800
Google Goggles
http://www.google.com/mobile/goggles/
Developed at Google in cooperation with Willow Garage, rosjava enables integration of Android and ROS compatible robots
http://code.google.com/p/rosjava/