  Author: Adi Gaskell Published: March 10, 2013 at 7:45 am
robot cloudProviding robots with intelligence that deserve
comparison with the human brain has been a failed ambition of
the artificial intelligence movement for decades.  A new project
by European Robo Earth sets out to try and close the gap.  It
will utilize the Internet to try and assist robots with their
thinking and decision making.  A web-based database of
information called Rapyuta has been created by scientists.  The
database describes objects the robots have met, while also
providing some computational assistance.  Its creators hope that
as well as making robots smarter, it will also make them
cheaper, as less processing will need to be done within the unit
itself.  The database forms part of the European Robo Earth
project that was started in 2011.  The project aims to create a
standard for how robots perceive the human world.  The database
aims to provide this uniform approach.  So rather than each
robot having to deal with situations base