RoboEarth in motion: Videos of the first three demonstrators

To catch a glimpse of what RoboEarth is all about, watch the following videos showing three demonstrators that have been developed in the last months.

• During RoboEarth's first internal workshop a demonstrator was built to showcase how sharing environmental information can be beneficial to robots, even if they use different hardware and/or software setups:
  

• For the second demonstrator a humanoid robot was asked to serve a drink to a patient in a mock-up hospital room. By using RoboEarth the robot was able to achieve its task in spite of having only basic capabilities for movement, perception and mapping. It downloaded an Action Recipe from the RoboEarth database, which provided a machine understandable semantic description of the action. Using logical reasoning, the robot could identify missing components, such as a map of the room and models for all involved objects, and download them from RoboEarth:

• The third demonstrator shows the feasibility of sharing articulation models for doors and drawers through RoboEarth.

Together, these three demonstrators take a first step towards showing that RoboEarth is feasible and useful. In particular, the first demonstrator illustrated how sharing data between multiple robots can lead to faster learning. The second demonstrator evidences that by taking prior knowledge into account the speed of performing complex tasks, such as serving a drink in the semi-structured environment of a hospital, can be greatly increased. The third demonstrator showed how robots can create knowledge that is useful across different robot platforms. Overall, using RoboEarth allows robots to benefit from the experience of other robots.