I guess you got lost in your quotes or something.

I see no evidence that CVMichael used VB6 for anything with his robot.

Yes, I understood that you feel C is too challenging right now for you. Sadly that's where most of the affordable robotics are right now.

Yes, there is Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio but (a.) you are getting into high hardware costs and a massive self-education investment, and (b.) the world has pretty much gone silent on this since 2009 or so.