This document discusses robotics integration with cryptocurrencies and smart contracts using the Robonomics platform. It provides an overview of Robonomics and its stages of development, including its current work integrating with Polkadot. Robonomics allows roboticists to offer robot services that can be paid for using cryptocurrencies, and provides users easy access to robotic services through the blockchain network.

1. Robotics in Polkadot
Sergei Lonshakov
Robonomics
developer
Alexander Krupenkin
Robonomics
developer

2. In presentation
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Why robotics integration
with cryptocurrencies,
smart contracts, and p2p
technologies is important
today.
Robonomics GitHub
overview from
historical
perspectives
Robonomics in Polkadot
technical overview and
demonstration
Good stuff for
Polkadot ecosystem
by Robonomics
project

6. We have robots
as employees
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We on the way to build
CPS as a firm

7. Who will be gatekeeper from
human economy to economy
of robots?
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8. #Airalab
Money for robots
Today we have an opportunity to use
Bitcoin – first e-money, which a robot
can receive and give away directly.

9. #Airalab
Contracts for robots
With the establishment of the
network Ethereum we got an
opportunity to make
agreements with a robot and
make a contracts with it.

10. RobinRobot/ByJanDeCoster2015

12. WHAT IS ROBONOMICS?
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This is the first open source platform which you can use to connect your robot
as a service for end users (Robot-as-a-Service). We support Web3
technologies that implement the exchange of technical and economic
information between humans and machines.

15. Timeline. Stage 1: the prototype of the Robonomics
network client (AIRA) was created
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From Autumn 2016
AIRA demonstrated a general scheme of
implementing Ethereum and IPFS for
downloading the program into the Robot
operating system (ROS).
Today AIRA has 22 releases on GitHub and is
fully compatible with the Robonomics network.
AIRA is supported by the Airalab team.
https://github.com/airalab/aira

16. Timeline. Stage 2: the implementation of the work
protocol for the Robonomics network providers
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From summer 2017
The Robonomics whitepaper [ru][eng][ch] was
written. 5 scientific articles about the use of
Robonomics were defended.
The communication stack between Ethereum and
ROS was implemented according to the Robonomics
whitepaper - robonomics_comm.

17. https://robonomics.network/
en/documents/

18. Timeline. Stage 3: establishment in Ethereum
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This is the current stage that began in Summer 2018.
By April 2019, 13 releases of the Robonomics smart contracts
on GitHub were covered. The Robonomics versioning system
was checked on the change of 5 generations of the Ethereum
network.
In Summer 2018, Open Zeppelin was integrated and 2
independent audits of the contracts’ code were passed.
The token emission instead of the gas utilized in Ethereum was
tested and stabilized.

19. Timeline. Stage 4: establishment in Polkadot
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There are one platform for roboticists and two networks under
the hood of Robonomics. This provides Robonomics
empowerment in the direction of Ethereum alternative.
Robonomics is one of the first projects in the Polkadot ecosystem.
Work is already underway since the end of 2018.
We are preparing to launch Robonomics parachain in Polkadot
together with already running network on Ethereum. Check some
links below: Robonomics on Substrate and Robonomics Polkadot
telemetry.
Vote for Robonomics parachain in Polkadot!

21. Robot Operating System community
21Community Metrics Report Tully Foote Reporting on July 2018

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2018
Robotics in Ethereum

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2019
Robotics in Polkadot
Robonomics runtime + ROS integration module

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Robotics in Polkadot
Robonomics runtime
● Accept asset transfers from parachains to launch robots.
● Store robot liabilities (economical part + technical part).
● Robot liability processing (FSM: open -> finalized).

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Robotics in Polkadot
ROS integration module
● Export substrate API to ROS Pub/Sub namespace.
● Export robot liability data and events.
● Send demand/offer/finalize extrinsics from ROS Pub/Sub namespace.

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Robotics in Polkadot

28. Join Robonomics testnet on Substrate
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airalab/substrate-node-robonomics

30. WHAT DOES ROBONOMICS PROVIDE?
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● Robonomics providers can open robotics markets - IoT data markets, manage
unmanned traffic and launch the work of Smart factories.
● Roboticists can provide a direct access to the robot functions, which will be
based on a subscription or payment for a specific service to users. Polkadot or
Ethereum network will secure all the process properly.
● End users can easily order robotics services. Once they send a signed
message to the Robonomics network, the network will cover all the next steps.

31. In conclusion
research@robonomics.network
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Write to us if you want to
integrate your token with
Robot-as-a-service workflow
Create issues and help us
to build L2 network over
Polkadot and Ethereum
https://github.com/airalabresearch@robonomics.network

32. «Let us remember that the automatic
machine is the precise economic
equivalent of slave labor. Any labor
which competes with slave labor must
accept the economic consequences of
slave labor.»
― Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics
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