Internet is connecting people all over the world. Internet is great, because people can find information on it.
Why can’t machines using internet like people? It is because machines need more descriptions than people need on the internet. Internet is designed for people.
In the past, a lot of innovations have been done in the internet to make machines communicating with each other, soap is one of this example. But still it is kind of to extend human internet for machines. With the definition of cloud and cloud services, it has opened a new possibility to building a cloud for machine – robot internet.
In the cloud for robotics, robots and machines can search for information about a certain task and download program to achieve the certain task. More can be found in the following links:
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RoboEarth (cloud for robotics )
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Google ROS (cloud robot operating system)
Here is a nice video presentation of ROS in Google I/O 2011
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