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The article focuses on the software update issued by Rethink Robotics which introduces a new set of applications for its mascot/prototype interactive robot called Baxter.

The article offers information on the universal software to control robotic equipment, called Ballista, developed by Nelson Paez of DreamHammer Inc.

The article reports on the development of five-dimensional (5D) Behavior Engine (BE) software technology that integrates human behaviors with robotics hardware using an ultra-wideband (UWB) technology for navigation systems of the U.S. Army.

The article focuses on the plan of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to conduct the Robotics Challenge offering a cash prize worth 2 million dollars to be held in October 2012. It states that the proposal will be pushing the robotics state-of-the-art in developing humanoid robots to support the disaster recovery mission of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). Moreover, it covers robotics developers in developing robotics software and hardware development tasks.

The article reports that Microsoft Corp. has introduced its first robotics software entitled as Robotic Studio. The software introduced by the company is aimed at home users, schools and universities. It was demonstrated at the RoboBusiness Conference held in the United States. Tandy Trower, general manager of the Microsoft Robotics group described the software as a Windows-based software that includes a visual programming tool for creating and debugging robot applications.

Provides information on the genetic software developed at DaimlerChrysler that programs a robotic assembler in an automobile plant to perform its chores. Capabilities of the software.

Makes various observations about robotic software. Assessment of the current state of the art of robotic software by Hans Moravec in the book `Mind Children'; Results yielded by strategic business applications; Advantages of thinking about applications as living creatures.