[Tyler]

RoboEarth - A World Wide Web for Robots
     


   

I am currently one of about 30 people working towards building an Internet for robots: a world-wide,
open-source platform that
allows any robot with a network connection to generate, share and reuse
data. RoboEarth's goal is a proof
of concept to show two things: That RoboEarth greatly speeds up robot
learning and adaptation in complex tasks, and that robots using
RoboEarth can execute tasks that were not explicitly planned for at
design time. The vision behind the four year, Europe-funded project is
much larger: Allow robots to encode, exchange, and reuse knowledge to
help each other accomplish complex tasks. This goes well beyond merely
allowing robots to communicate via the Internet, outsourcing computation
to the cloud, or linked data: Unlike humans, robots excel at systematic
data collection, so a system that allows robots to autonomously create
meaningful knowledge and share it could provide a powerful feed forward
to any robot’s 3D sensing, acting and learning capabilities. For more
information, have a look at the RoboEarth website.


   

http://robots.net/article/3100.html