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To Cope With Complicated Programs, Web-Based Database Help Robots

by Bidita Debnath on March 11, 2013 at 10:32 PM
 To Cope With Complicated Programs, Web-Based Database Help Robots

Robots can now get help online, as they are confused about what they encounter in the world of humans.

European scientists have turned on the first part of a web-based database of information to help them cope, the BBC reported.

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Called Rapyuta, the online "brain" describes objects robots have met and can also carry out complicated computation on behalf of a robot.

Rapyuta's creators hope it will make robots cheaper, as they will not need all their processing power on-board.

The Rapyuta database is part of the European Robo Earth project that began in 2011 with the hope of standardising the way robots perceive the human world.
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Instead of every robot building up its own idiosyncratic catalogue of how to deal with the objects and situations it encounters, Rapyuta would be the place they ask for help when confronted with a novel situation, place or thing.

In addition, the web-based service is able to do complicated computation on behalf of a robot - for example if it needs to work out how to navigate a room, fold an item of clothing or understand human speech.

The system could be particularly useful for drones, self-driving cars or other mobile robots who have to do a lot of number crunching just to get round, Mohanarajah Gajamohan, technical head of the project at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich said.

Without access to such a database, roboticists fear machines will be restricted to working in very tightly controlled environments such as production lines and never live easily alongside humans.

Source: ANI
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