What seems to be a major initiative to standardize all future generation robotics, scientists are vying for a common platform where all the robots can exchange, store and discover the world in their language.
No, it isn’t a Sci-Fi movie script, According to BBC, European Scientists are currently developing a project codenamed – RoboEarth, the bible for robots. Wherein robots can upload information from a common source and share how they executed a particular task, enabling new robots to master these sequences via RoboEarth.
“The idea behind RoboEarth is to develop methods that help robots encode, exchange and re-use knowledge”, quoted Markus Waibel from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich in BBC. He further added, “Most current robots see the world their own way and there's very little standardisation going on.”
Further, maintaining a common bible via RoboEarth for all the robots, will mean quicker upgradation and implementation of tasks along with availability of information in the form of maps, descriptions of objects and instructions as to how to execute certain tasks.
“Wikipedia is something that humans use to share knowledge, that everyone can edit, contribute knowledge to and access. Something like that does not exist for robots, stated Waibel and added, “It would be great if a robot could enter a location that it had never visited before, consult RoboEarth to learn about that place and the objects and tasks in it and then quickly get to work.”
This project is currently handled by around 35 researchers and is funded by The European Union, which believes that more and more service and domestic robots are going to be placed in homes, a la iRobot style.
Let’s see how it works!
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