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As memes can be used in transmitting cultural information between people, memes can also be used to transmit cultural and other information between robots. This chapter builds on Chap. 2 suggesting a formalism for robot knowledge and intelligence. Robot memes and regular memes are contrasted, with extensions added to robot memes to describe how robot memes can be shared between robots and among robots and humans. The use of memes in development of robot culture is described, as well as how the memes shared among robots can be used to increase robot knowledge and intelligence through learning, storage of knowledge, and human guidance. Also discussed is the notion of malevolent memes that can contribute to incorrect robot behavior and can serve as means for accidental or purposeful fault injection into communities of robots. Corrective measures for such memes are also considered.
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Truszkowski, W., Rouff, C., Akhavannik, M., Tunstel, E. (2020). Robot Memes. In: Robot Memetics. SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37952-0_3
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