Robots Test Their Own World Wide Web 64
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."
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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.
Re: Bad idea (Score:4, Funny)
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.
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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
So true .. not thinking things through (Score:2)
See also my post on Google/BostonDynamics: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4556777&cid=45691707 [slashdot.org] ... One thing most people do not yet understand about robotics (especially in the hands of some place like Google) is that if you have m
"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.
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SkyBorg!
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Skynet is coming (Score:2)
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You fellows need to do one of two things: either learn how computers work and learn what sentience is, and/or see a mental health professional because you guys are showing signs of a disease someone I knew a few decades ago Had, schizophrenia (there are different forms of that disease). Chuck had me convinced that he was a fighter pilot in VietNam until I found out he was a lot younger than he looked, and was only 13 when the war ended. His form of schizophrenia was thinking what he saw on TV and the movies
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> His form of schizophrenia was thinking what he saw on TV and the movies was his real life.
How do I spam their Internet with ads? (Score:4, Insightful)
Maybe if they can find a way to eradicate spam, they'll share the source.
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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?
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Re:Robots Test Their Own World Wide Web (Score:4, Funny)
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".
cloud based world wide web (Score:5, Insightful)
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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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.
yes, they do and it is so because everybody buys server time from everybody else. You just be careful with that cable [xkcd.com].
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Hey! Our regular, for-human-use world wide web is cloud based, too!
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On the bright side, now I can think up lovely hacks of the robot internet (stuff the cloud nonsense) which would be even more fun(??)! Picture a worm giving the robotic version of enemas....
Sticks and Stones (Score:1)
Robot A: "You are nothing but a bot!"
Robot B: "And?"
I Want In On That (Score:2)
WWWW (Score:3)
also known as the "World Wide Wobot Web"
Skynet 0.1 (Score:1)
Lousy reporting (Score:4, Insightful)
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.
Semantic Web (Score:3)
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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A machine readable web was what many people pushed for ten years ago. Then came HTML5 tag soup and "webapps" with messy code.
What's the deal with that? Whatever happened to xhtml? I am a little disappointed the W3C didn't merge the xhtml and HTML5 specifications... The web is messier than ever.</rant>
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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.
Good God! Great shades of SkyNet (Score:2)
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What is the Matrix? (Score:1)
I suspect it will be called the Matrix.