ON THE INTERNET NO ONE KNOWS YR A ROBOT

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ITEM: Yr Robot Future Headline of the day:



Says RoboEarth researcher Dr Markus Waibel from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich:

"Wikipedia is something that humans use to share knowledge, that everyone can edit, contribute knowledge to and access," he said. "Something like that does not exist for robots."

It would be great, he said, 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.

While other projects are working on standardising the way robots sense the world and encode the information they find, RoboEarth tries to go further.

"The key is allowing robots to share knowledge," said Dr Waibel. "That's really new."

And then there’s this golden nugget:

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.

Which will come in handy when SkyNet goes online.

Ha ha. Not really.

But imagine the fun once robots become sentient and start signing up for Facebook accounts.

God I love living in the 21st Century.

Wiki wiki wiki,

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