RoboEarth. No, it's not a lame SNES game from 1994, it's a cloud network that lets robots learn from the actions of other bots. It started over three years ago, and now, a new, related project has sprung from that initiative at the Institute for Artificial Intelligence at the University of Bremen in Germany. Called RoboHow, it seeks to translate info on the web meant for human consumption into something our electromechanical helpers can understand. Imagine a future in which you ask your house robot to whip you up something new for dinner; RoboHow would ingest your chosen recipes from Epicurious and turn them into instructions said bot can execute.
Your wallet will also be substantially lighter if you buy one of these.
Tesla boss Elon Musk has announced the Tesla Bot, a general-purpose, bi-pedal, humanoid robot that is able to perform different tasks
We can learn a lot from the robot vacuum. Quarantine has brought me closer to understanding its purpose, and ours.