Several years ago, Microsoft Research offered an open-sourced tool called AirSim, which was a simulator for drones, cars and other autonomous vehicles. After years of experimentation, Microsoft ended ...

How do you teach an autonomous drone to fly itself? Practice, practice, practice. Now Microsoft is offering a way to put a drone’s control software through its paces millions of times before the first ...

Microsoft Corp. today announced the launch of Project AirSim, a powerful physics simulator that replicates the real world in 3D digitized environments to train autonomous aerial drones quickly and ...

Testing any kind of project in the real world is expensive. You have to haul people and equipment around, which costs money, and if you break anything, you have to pay for that too! Simulation tends ...

Microsoft has released a beta of a new simulator that allows developers test and train robots and drones in a virtual environment. This simulation of the real world is far more advanced that those ...