‘Sorry, Dave, I can’t let you do that’: Robots learn, network without humans — RT News

‘Sorry, Dave, I can’t let you do that’: Robots learn, network without humans — RT News:

A World Wide Web for robots just got more real as scientists ready to demo a project four years in the making: a cloud-based hive mind for robots to upload and download information and learn new tasks from each other, completely independent of humans.

Comparisons to The Terminator’s Skynet began flooding in all the way back in 2011, when a breakthrough was made after researchers at the University of Technology in Munich, Zaragoza, Stuttgart, and Philips assembled in Eindhoven to form the Robo Earth project.

A team of 35 people had developed a Tech United medical robot AMIGO, capable of independently learning to pick up objects and serve them to bed-ridden patients.

 

HAL 9000, the intelligent computer from Stanley Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’