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International Conference on Social Robotics

ICSR 2012: Social Robotics pp 418–427Cite as

Social Networking for Robots to Share Knowledge, Skills and Know-How

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A major bottleneck in robotics research and development is the difficulty and time required to develop and implement new skills for robots to realize task-independence. In spite of work done in terms of task model transfer among robots, so far little work has been done on how to make robots task-independent. In this paper, we describe our work-in-progress towards the development of a robot social network called Numbots that draws on the principle of sharing information in human social networking. We demonstrate how Numbots has the potential to assist knowledge sharing, know-how and skill transfer among robots to realize task-independence.

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  1. Centre for Quantum Computation & Intelligent Systems, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

    Wei Wang, Benjamin Johnston & Mary-Anne Williams

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  1. Interactive Digial Media Institute, Social Robotics Laboratory, National University of Singapore, 4 Engineering Drive 3, 117576, Singapore, Singapore

    Shuzhi Sam Ge  & John-John Cabibihan  & 

  2. Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Gates Building, 94305-9010, Stanford, CA, USA

    Oussama Khatib

  3. Robotics Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, 15213, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Reid Simmons

  4. Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology, Human-robot Collaboration Studio, 2007, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Mary-Anne Williams

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Wang, W., Johnston, B., Williams, MA. (2012). Social Networking for Robots to Share Knowledge, Skills and Know-How. In: Ge, S.S., Khatib, O., Cabibihan, JJ., Simmons, R., Williams, MA. (eds) Social Robotics. ICSR 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7621. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34103-8_42

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