An interesting piece of development I noticed recently in involvement on Microsoft in the domain of Robotics. !! 

The 2006 cover of Scientific American magazine, had the title "Dawn of the Age of Robots."  It featured an article by Bill Gates calling for "a robot in every home." In this article, the founder of Microsoft insisted that the next technological breakthrough would be robotics if the following points were to happen:

•Standardization of robots

•Reduction of hardware costs, especially for sensors and generally all electronics

•Software application conduction, processing, and usage

Well, these things are happening, and Microsoft seems very interested

Read more in the links below and let us know your thoughts on the feasiblity with regard to industrial Robots ..definitely there is a scope of Microsoft getting into the domain of Service Robots but Industrial Robotics seems to be a distant future. !

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=a-robot-in-every-home

Microsoft Robotics blog --> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/msroboticsstudio/

Details on Microsoft Robot Developer Studio platform - > http://www.microsoft.com/robotics/