ACM Comm 2012 02 Text-Mining the Voice of the People (Notes)

"Text-Mining the Voice of the People" CACM February 2012

The Social Life of Robots by Alex Wright, p.19-21 Alex Wright is a writer and information architect based in Brooklyn, NY.

The Social Life of Robots

"Researchers are trying to build robots capable of working together with minimal human supervision. But will they ever get along?"
Communication and cooperation between robots is analogous to A.L. software organisms communicating and cooperating.

People

1. Bert Tanner, U. of Delaware
2. Reid Simmons, NASA

Ideas

1. The TRESTLE Project at Carnegie Mellon University[1] focuses on developing the architectural framework to coordinate robotic assembly teams.
2. Multi-purpose robot vs. single-purpose robot.
3. Robots share sensor data.
4. Reminds me about military Combined Arms[2] operations where units with different capabilities coordinate to achieve a goal.
5. Single General C-in-C is too simplistic.
6. When does the robot team need to cooperate?
7. When does a robot team member decide to act alone?
8. How and when does a robot detect that some action is not working? Or, is causing harm? Robots are terrible at this.
9. Learning from mistakes.
10. How does a robot, or software program, remember?
11. Actuation - To put into action.

References

1. Distributed Robot Architectures (DIRA)[3]

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