Robots Getting New Tool in War Against Humans

It's always a great idea to "arm" robots with knowledge of their so-called "human masters." And while we're at it, why not give them the ability to share that knowledge and learn from each other all over the world? What could possibly go wrong?

European scientists have embarked on a project to let robots share and store what they discover about the world.

Called RoboEarth it will be a place that robots can upload data to when they master a task, and ask for help in carrying out new ones.

Researchers behind it hope it will allow robots to come into service more quickly, armed with a growing library of knowledge about their human masters.

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RoboEarth hopes to start showing how the information that robots discover about the world can be defined so any other robot can find it and use it.

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It would be great, [RoboEarth researcher Dr Markus Waibel] said, if a robot could enter a location that it had never visited before, consult RoboEarth to learn about that place and the objects and tasks in it and then quickly get to work.

"Quickly get to work," indeed. "Quickly get to work" killing us all.

[BBC]