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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...
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.
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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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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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also known as the "World Wide Wobot Web"
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
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.
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.
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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