VANCOUVER, Canada -- December 13, 2006 -- Braintech, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BRHI), a leading provider of Vision Guided Robotic ("VGR") software technologies, announced today that it has signed an agreement to join Microsoft Robotics Studio Partner Program, ("MSRSPP").

The program recently announced by Microsoft, (NasdaqGS:MSFT), is designed to support key companies that plan to develop, integrate and market robotic software, devices and systems utilizing Microsoft Robotics Studio™, a new Windows®-based environment for academic, hobbyist and commercial developers to easily create robotic applications for a wide variety of computing platforms.

As part of its support for MSRS, Braintech plans to release a suite of software services under the brand name, VOLTS-IQ™ (an acronym for "visual object location and tracking services"). These services which draw upon Braintech's extensive expertise in the field of vision guided robotics, for the first time allow developers of robotic systems to "vision-enable" their projects and products with unprecedented ease and speed, circumventing the long learning curve involved with vision research and development and resulting in considerably shorter time-to-market for commercial robotic products.