“Teach one, teach all” - The explosive combination of instructible robots connected via cyber systems

Combining robotic architectures with cyber systems has enormous potential for future robotic applications because it enables the possibility of online sharing of all aspects of the robotic architecture: the knowledge contained in architectural components, the parameterization of these components, the very component algorithms, as well as the architectural layout. In this paper, we discuss the potential of using cyber systems for knowledge sharing and use among multiple robots. We isolate functional requirements for the robotic middleware to enable such knowledge sharing, briefly discuss our own first steps in developing such a system, and show a proof-of-concept demonstration where two robots share and immediately use a new capability acquired through one-shot learning.