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Robot to RoboEarth to Robot
RoboEarth
Well, we’ve seen this movie before (literally speaking). A group of robotics engineers at the University of Technology in Eindhoven are developing an Internet for robots; a kind of online database from which robots can download instructions and to which they can upload “experience.” According to its creators, their RoboEarth system will allow robots to share information and learn from each other, allowing the benefits of machine cognition and learning to proliferate through a network of bots. Cue the SkyNet comparisons.
But barring a declaration of war against humans, RoboEarth is actually a pretty neat idea. In fact, we were somewhat surprised to learn that, according to RoboEarth, it is the first system to allow robots to download their instructions form the Internet. Using a RoboEarth or a system like it, helper robots could learn how to do things better, pushing machine learning to new places and enhancing human-machine interaction.
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Technology, Clay Dillow, machine learning, roboearth, robotics, robots, skynet, VideoRoboEarth will include everything needed to close the loop from robot to RoboEarth to robot. The RoboEarth World-Wide-Web style database will be implemented on a Server with Internet and Intranet functionality. It stores information required for object recognition (e.g., images, object models), navigation (e.g., maps, world models), tasks (e.g., action recipes, manipulation strategies) and hosts intelligent services (e.g., image annotation, offline learning).
To complete their closed loop, the team will offer ROS compatible, non-bot-specific components that robot builders can take off the shelf and implement into their creations, hooking them up to the robo-web. Put on your raving shoes and see their own robot, AMIGO, download and carry out instructions in the video below.
[RoboEarth via PlasticPals]
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wow. it really IS happening. why not give them gatling guns and send them down the streets. get it over with early.
what "skynet" too ambitious a name?
I seriously doubt they are the "first to use online instructions" for robots. TUM had a pair of robots that could use natural language instructions from WikiHow.com to make pancakes. They've been using such system(s) for years.
I seriously doubt they are the "first to use online instructions" for robots. TUM had a pair of robots that could use natural language instructions from WikiHow.com to make pancakes. They've been using such system(s) for years.
www.hizook.com/blog/2010/10/18/robots-make-and-deliver-pancakes-cooperative-effort-pr2-tums-james-and-tum-rosie
Pretty cool concept even if they've already been using it.
I'm all right with it as long as they don't make private data public and it doesn't have the robots attack us.
I feel like this would be a prime use for Dropbox. Everything the robots learn would be stored in a Dropbox folder and synced as soon as the robot enters WiFi. This way it seamlessly transitions from offline learning to online learning back to offline learning.
It's basically a hive mind, isn't it? As soon as one robot learns something, they all do, but each robot can disconnect from the "hive" (Internet) and learn on its own.
Really cool. Love it.
-IMP ;) :)
K well... Selling my computer and buying two shotguns
"Attention Roomba, you will be assilimated into the RoboEarth collective. Resistance is futile."
The rise of the Cybermen begins. (with their own communication) we are doomed. :)