The Nao Robot, part of the MyRobot connected site (Via Nao)
A social network for robots has gone live. MyRobots.com hopes to connect bots and smart web-enabled objects together in a type of "cloud robotics." The goal is to augment devices capabilities by off-loading computation or other task to the "cloud." This pushes robots beyond their physical and software limitations.
Users of the service can create apps to aid in adding to a bot's function. For example, a robot has a camera but does nothing with it but stream video. A cloud based app would give this bot image recognition, navigation, object tracking and the like to that image.
Once the owner's bot is connected to MyRobots.com, it can be monitored via the web, sent commands, return updates, and run custom applications. At the moment only a handful of robots are compatible with the social network. However, Arduino based devices and PCs can connect to the system.
A serial to Ethernet gateway allows most non-connected bots to hop on the network. At $77 USD a piece, connecting various old "dumb-bots" may have to wait.
My question, can a virtual robot connect to MyRobots? If so, can improvements be made to the virtual-bot?
Eavesdropper
