Internet for Robots: It's Not Skynet, It's RoboEarth

aolnews.com — It's one of science fiction's most familiar ideas: computers that can, when hooked up to other computers, become self-aware and exhibit human characteristics. The results are often sinister, as the machines perceive humanity as a threat and defend themselves to the death. Now RoboEarth has put a mirror up to those fictional tropes. Artificial intelligence and robotics experts -- and a brief history of our darker interactions with subpersonified silicon -- tell us we should take a look in. Mar 7, 2011 View in Crawl 4