At its core, RoboEarth is a World Wide Web for robots: a giant network and database repository where robots can share information and learn from each other about their behavior and their environment.
Bringing a new meaning to the phrase “experience is the best teacher”, the goal of RoboEarth is to allow robotic systems to benefit from the experience of other robots, paving the way for rapid advances in machine cognition and behaviour, and ultimately, for more subtle and sophisticated human-machine interaction.
— image from http://www.roboearth.org/
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http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/roboearth-a-world-wide-web-for-robots
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Also see:
- RoboEarth: A World Wide Web for Robots — from spectrum.ieee.org
- http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=54816
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From DSC:
Given the state of many of mankind’s prideful hearts…this is the type of area that makes me nervous. How will such technologies be used?