Robots to get their own internet (BBC)

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By Mark Ward
Technology correspondent, BBC News

Robots could soon have an equivalent of the internet and Wikipedia.

European scientists have embarked on a project to let robots share and store what they discover about the world.

Called RoboEarth it will be a place that robots can upload data to when they master a task, and ask for help in carrying out new ones.

Researchers behind it hope it will allow robots to come into service more quickly, armed with a growing library of knowledge about their human masters.

Share plan

The idea behind RoboEarth is to develop methods that help robots encode, exchange and re-use knowledge, said RoboEarth researcher Dr Markus Waibel from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.
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more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12400647




Oh, Hell ... let's just name it SkyNet and get it over with. No sense fighting destiny.

[hobbit709]

1. skynet is coming

[Kennah]

2. Miles Dyson to the lab. Miles Dyson please report to the lab.

[Wilber_Stool]

3. Now all they need is a good union.

I'm serious.

[damntexdem]

4. The Internet is for roboporn!

But what if they use it to start an uprising against humans?

[EOTE]

5. Great, now they'll be spending all day watching robot porn.

I have a feeling robots are about to become a whole hell of a lot less productive.

[Renew Deal]

6. I've seen this movie

And it doesn't end well