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Vast and Gruesome.

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Rapyuta, Robot Brain.

Robots need processing power and in the current stage of robot technology, it is hard to carry all that processing power in one small robot head (or body). So European scientists have developed, what they hope will be a standard for online 'brains', where the robot in question is constantly consulting an online encyclopedia which contains information on objects it may encounter, speech and conversations of people and other information, from which it can learn to navigate its world. It is an important step in the development of robot technology in that it enables these machines, to go beyond their onboard capacity, when completing tasks. The system was developed by European Robo Earth project, shared by five different European research labs. It utilises cloud computing. " The system could be particularly useful for drones, self-driving cars or other mobile robots who have to do a lot of number crunching just to get round", said Mohanarajah Gajamohan, technical head o

Channel 4 News Data Baby/Big Dog Robot.

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I think that technology is moving into a new era. My paper looks at the future of the Internet, as mobile technology revolutionises machine to machine communications, health care and the development of democracy, albeit in its very early stages. Robot technology for example is beginning to take shape. Our relationships with data, for good or bad, is causing social and economic change at a staggering rate. On the one hand it has created Internet giants, like Google, who grow increasingly controlling and manipulative of peoples online lives, while at the same time providing stunning technology and access to information, which would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. Channel 4, has recently launched what it called a Data Baby, to monitor the power and influence of Internet companies, who are dominating and using our data, to sell us things, spy on us and direct us to websites of companies that have paid Google to favour them in searches: Meet Rebecca Taylor: Robot techno