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March 12, 2013

An Internet for robots
Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 12, 2013
Researchers of five European universities have developed a cloud-computing platform for robots. The platform allows robots connected to the Internet to directly access the powerful computational, storage, and communications infrastructure of modern data centers - the giant server farms behind the likes of Google, Facebook, and Amazon - for robotics tasks and robot learning. With the development of the RoboEarth Cloud Engine the team continues their work towards creating an Internet for robots. The ... read more

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