Could A Robot ‘App Store’ Lead to Massive Robot Collective Intelligence?

Posted by moezilla on August 18, 2009

iPhones have their app store — but what if we had the same thing for robots? Ultimately a robot’s “learned” routines could also be shared, and problem-solving could even include downloading new robot routines in real-time.

But one science writer asks whether this would create “a massive-scale multi-robot collective intelligence, powered by multiple bots continually uploading and downloading learned behaviors and insights to and from the Robot App Store!”

(The article’s title? “From the robot app store to the global robot brain!”)

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