Re: Q: Cooperation of robots

Paul Francis (francis@cactus.slab.ntt.jp)
Mon, 27 Nov 95 12:42:56 JST


>
> Is there some effort for robots to do gathering
> informations in cooperative work style?
> That is, Sharing informations gathered by the other kind of
> robots with some communication between robots like
> the that of intelligent agents in Intelligent Agent area.
>

I haven't seen anything, but I only pay so much
attention to this list. I know that one problem is
that many robots run to support profit- (or planned
profit-) based services, so don't want to share their
info.

What do you see as the advantage to sharing information?
It is offhand not clear to me that much is to be gained
by it. For instance, given that each robot-running
organization usually has their own way of processing
the resources they find, then they have to go out and
retrieve the resources in any event. Thus, not much
may be saved by sharing information....

PF