With the humans vs. robots chess game behind us, we intend to leverage that into a testbed suitable for experiments involving robotic synergy, and possibly as a testbed for comparing that to human synergy.

We plan to develop this website and a few like it to serve what we hope will be a community of engineers focused on synergistic robotics. This may include a portal storing a knowledge base.

We expect growth in this area as individual robots reach their potential. A team of Roomba robots, for example, could determine among themselves the most effective way to vacuum a large facility based on real-time individual performance feedback and what they each learn about their environment. Likewise, a cooperating team of robots may be more effective and faster searching an entire airport for a bomb. We have many other examples in mind, including for military applications.

Q: Is empowering robots to work together a good idea? Is this how they take over?

A: We believe this empowers us through robots, not the other way around, but we are open to the question. We love science fiction, particularly how it sometimes becomes science fact, and we're aware of the many stories of robots conquering humans. Banning technology, however, such as advances in cooperating robots, is doomed to failure. The only question is whether the technology will occur in the open, with dialog and thinking encouraged, or hidden. We are dedicated to the former.

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