I found an article that’s worth reading on msdn blogs. It looks more funny than it probably should.

At first I got to tell you what Microsoft Robotics Studio is.

The Microsoft Robotics Studio is a Windows-based environment for robot control and simulation. It is aimed at academic, hobbyist, and commercial developers and handles a wide variety of robot hardware.

RoboTurk employs Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) equipped with cameras that are capable of steaming live video of disaster struck areas to any number of ground command stations. The helicopter carries onboard an eBox compute-unit that runs Microsoft Robotics Studio, allowing the robot to execute specific command issued by ground statation or to auto-fly or safely land. The ground stations utilizes Windows Server 2008 Media Services that capture, process and streams video.

Other illustrations in the post are not less fun. Have a look:

RobotTurK: Disaster Emergency Video system on Microsoft Robotics Studio Blog

By the way, for developers it might be interesting to know that for streaming Silverlight, which is the web part of WPF, is used.