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Robots Test Their Own World Wide Web
An anonymous reader writes "A new system called RoboEarth is currently being tested at Eindhoven University which will enable robots to complete tasks by sharing knowledge through a cloud based world-wide-web. The current study is based in a hospital setting where robots are sharing information to complete tasks like moving around by sharing a map of the room and serving drinks to 'patients'. The aim of the system is that robots and humans will be able to upload information to a cloud based database which can be accessed and used by robots. This will enable robots to share information and also to learn from each other. It will also allow robots to react to changes within their environment without having to be reprogrammed."
t+1 year: There will be a startup lets call it "NetBots" by Eindhoven Univ. t+2 year: There will be slashdot post - "NetBots bought by Google for x.y bln $" t+3 year: There will be one more slashdot post "Google looking to intgerate Boston Dynamics ideas with NetBots" . . . t+t' year: Terminator - The reality - Psst... It ain't a movie at your nearest screen...
Wrong, they'll name it Twitter, limit interaction to 140 characters a pop, which will help keep the 'I' in A.I. to a minimum.
Maybe if they can find a way to eradicate spam, they'll share the source.
Seems we just can't help our selves, we are building skynet piece by piece, each project ignoring the others, nobody building in firewalls or airgaps or kill switches, because their piece of the puzzle couldn't possibly do any of those science fiction things. Don't worry they are all simple machines. Just serving drinks to patients in hospitals. No, that mechanical hand couldn't possibly hold a weapon. Nobody is building autonomous robot soldiers, tha'ts just plain silly. You watch too much TV.
Nothing to to see here, move along now.
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Wow, you know the article is full of shit when you come across "cloud based world wide web".
So let me guess. The robots have their own server where they can share info. So the cloud because a database on a server and the world wide web is actually just a database where they share info.
Guess the buzzwords do sound better.
I like how they say it can save computing power & battery life for the robots. Though I'm wondering, if a robot is just working 1 house, taking care of some old person, does it need to query the database (oops, i mean cloud) for the room dimensions, or is it smart enough to keep the info about the house it's currently in it's memory?
Of course, lets say the robot records the layout of the house, uploads it to the cloud. What is to keep another robot or even human from using this information to rob anyone? Seems to me like you have a great collection of information on people, places, schedules, etc that can be put to really bad use from the government, crooks and corporations.
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Robot A: "You are nothing but a bot!"
Robot B: "And?"
Table-ized A.I.
I wonder what type of robot porn they`ll put on their robot internet
Until they get there, they'll need their own "A.I. Gore" to "invent their own internet properly".
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I won't even explain why. You already know how this will end.
Not to worry, the robot NSA is already recording all meta data on the robot world wide web.
There's gotta be a ton of hot robo-porn up there already! Let's go, I want to see some bare circuits!
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also known as the "World Wide Wobot Web"
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
Before all else establish a neuronal network, spawning all over the planet and space to give each unit of the collective the ability to communicate with all of its kind and share knowledge gained about technology and all lower species... - Progress : In the process. I thought, being funny in the morning could be nice from time to time.
It's just a database for crying out loud, stop with the completely infactual articles already, own world wide web, cloud...
"Robots get a special database that they can access over the existing internet" - There you go thats the true story.
Am I getting old or does that make no sense?
It makes perfect sense, shared common data. Why keep one independent lausy dataset, when you can make one large good one together. Is this not whats open source is all about?
A machine readable web was what many people pushed for ten years ago. Then came HTML5 tag soup and "webapps" with messy code. Maybe, as a practical need for a machine readable web arises, old ideas will be reconsidered.
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Bad idea? You mean that if someone passes purposefully incorrect or dangerous data into their RoboCloud that all of them will have access to this poisoned data at once?
Ah, but they've already figured this out. Only robots are allowed to upload to the RoboWeb. Users have to complete a CAPTCHA. If they get it right then they must be human and are therefore blocked from uploading.
I was kind of thinking the same thing. Unless this database is accessible via a webpage, it isn't WWW. It is an internet protocol that has nothing to do with the web.
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Yawn. Wake me when they put that cloud-based world-wide-web on the internet.
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This and 3D printing are all the mechanical devils need to replicate and take over. Our goose is cooked!!!
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Should we ask everyone in "Eindhoven University" to X-Ray room to verify that they are humans?
I suspect it will be called the Matrix.
If this were easy, they wouldn't need us to do it!
See also my post on Google/BostonDynamics: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4556777&cid=45691707 ... One thing most people do not yet understand about robotics (especially in the hands of some place like Google) is that if you have millions of networked robots, all learning independently, they can pool that learning over the network. And that network can then learn very quickly. And so "performance" can improve very quickly, with millions of trial-and-error experiments running in parallel with the results integrated with learning algorithms. That is perhaps the biggest upside and downside of a big data company like Google getting into robotics, especially if they keep the results proprietary (which they may or may not do)."
"Intelligent mobile robots are near to totally transforming our society. And the transition might be quicker than we might expect, as robots can go from worse than human to better than human at some task almost overnight when there is an R&D breakthrough in some area.
Couple that rend with "War is a Racket" (Marine Major General Smedly Butler) and those various dystopian robotics movies may even be too optimistic... Would it really require something much more than billions of networked cheap robotic cockroaches wielding some small weapon to wipe out all or most of humanity? Even if that network failed a year later? I still feel the primary issue is the one in my sig -- that we need (as Einstein called for) a new way of thinking to go with out new-found technological powers.
A 21st century issue: the irony of technologies of abundance in the hands of those still thinking in terms of scarcity.