An introduction to the Internet of Robots

1. The Internet of Robots

2. Internet Robotics
in ten years the Internet will host a trillion robots
using fully synthetic software and systems
every Internet robot is uniquely different
each robot has an audience of one
all are fully personalized tools or toys
Internet robots work well together in teams
they’re good at looking, listening, and learning
they constantly evolve and they’re easy to clone
so Internet robots will multiply like rabbits

3. The Old Internet of Media
this is the familiar Internet we all use today
Email, Google, Amazon, Netflix, Twitter, et. al.
it’s an Internet of isolated information islands
it’s the Internet handcrafted for hackers by hackers
The New Internet of Mechanization
the Internet of Things plus the Internet of Robots
gradually replacing the Internet we use today
great new tools and toys built by everyone for all
using state of the art automation science

4. What are Internet Robots?
they’re not solid robots that make and move things
they’re soft robots that model and manage things
they mechanize the minutia of modern life
they’re mass-customized, micro-scale automata
soft and solid robots team up really well
Internet robots develop and deploy your robots
and they help you design your personalized robots
Internet robots processes plain language & plain logic
so they’re always as smart as a pencil and paper

5. Using the Internet of Robots
the serious game of real life ported to the Internet
automating all aspects of your labor & leisure lives
it sounds like Siri, it looks like World of Warcraft
it works with perceptual automation (e.g. Kinect)
it’s your own completely personalized Internet
with your own staff of specialized robots
tuned and tailored for your unique life
much less Internet effort, much more success

6. Internet Robots are Intimate
your personal robots constantly model your life
by monitoring your personal audio & video streams
plus your kinematic and physiological sensors
in order to learn what you do and how you do it
and provide perfect recall for all personal information
they gauge the geometry of everything automatically
they know what’s going on around you at all times
they know what you’re doing & help you get it done
they know what you need and when you need it
they alert you to significant obstacles & opportunities

7. Robots Maximize Internet Collective Intelligence
all of us together are far smarter than any of us
that’s why the Internet of Robots is really smart
islands limit Internet collective intelligence today
but the Internet of Robots has no limits
so everyone will have better choices
and everyone will share in collective success

8. Internet Robotics Technology
no bullshit (e.g. artificial intelligence)
computer science is mostly irrelevant
hard science and high technology are sufficient
building on a mature $100B technology base
automation engineering (design, defense, etc.)
old, reliable, pick and shovel technologies
boring, workable, no big breakthroughs
old time-tested, trustworthy tools and techniques

9. Internet Robots Are Built With Synthetic Software
automata synthesis has been routine for decades
complex engineered system synthesis at vast scales
tool suppliers include Cadence, Mentor, Synopsys
hardware is just frozen software after all
synthetic spaghetti structures are really smart
total automated testing of subject matter models
but synthesis works only for mechanization software
because it’s automatic rather than algorithmic
note that algorithmic synthesis is unworkable
so media processing requires manual coding

10. Strong Plain Language Specification Technology
soft robots are synthesized from plain language
plain English first, other major languages later
entirely obvious to middle school students
we all have a Ph.D. in plain language
the key enabling technology for Internet robots
borrowed from the publishing and defense industries
based on a century of mature prior art
far superior to soft programming languages
strong enough for the principled professions
e.g. management, medicine, law, engineering

11. Internet Robotics Infrastructure
based on existing Internet standards and practices
mostly scalable NoSQL databases (Redis, Cassandra)
mass-scale asynchronous incremental automata
vast sparse automata structures and spaces
mostly schemaless modeling, schemas will be rare
models are shared via big data & document engines
synthesis generates JavaScript now, bytecodes later
robots are disposable rather than durable
most robot code runs only once, much never does

12. Digital Media on the New Internet
still lots of digital media on the new Internet
but all information islands will be eliminated
so no need for big websites or big search engines
precision specialized search with unlimited findability
mass federation of media sourcing and searching
automated supply chains end information overload
with radically better media searching and sharing
institutional IT will decline and disappear
agile enterprise automation is the replacement

13. Engineered Synthetics are the Future of Software
everyone agrees that software is eating the world
but software is still a primitive handicraft industry
now a quantum leap in quality & quantity is required
we need precision software mass modeling systems
we need cheap mass custom automated production
we need software based on solid engineering science
that's why synthetics are the inevitable future
all that’s required is retargeting mature technologies
Internet robots are the synthetics technology driver

14. Hacker Capitalism Will Decline
primitive handicraft code can’t compete with robots
engineered synthetics are vastly superior in all ways
handcrafted code severely limits Internet innovation
hacking is truly dangerous on the new Internet
Automation Capitalism Will Dawn
robots will reinvent & reinvigorate Internet capitalism
new economic advantages of specialization, not scale
Internet industrialization with interchangeable parts
a trillion lines of perfect new custom code daily

15. Executive Summary
islands are the fatal flaw in the Internet of Media
so mechanization is the only workable Internet future
robots are the simple, easy, cheap way to this future
a new Internet built by reusing mature technologies
a radically bigger, better, cheaper, faster Internet
powered by familiar plain language and plain logic
built by engineers and MBAs using true high tech
all human mass systems will migrate to the Internet
and these will be thoroughly mechanized with robots

16. Backup

17. But It’s the Wrong Kind of Software!
that’s what the software experts will tell you
not the sort of software done on the Internet today
but it’s the ideal sort for Internet industrialization
mysterious to hackers and computer scientists
but routine for decades in automation engineering
old Internet things must be done in new ways
but mainly these will be better ways
with a far better user experience
and much less user effort

18. A True High Technology of Software
surprising to most hackers and computer scientists
but old hat to many automation engineers
a complete working mechanics of practical software
enterprise, economic, & engineering mechanisms
as well as all kinds of familiar everyday mechanisms
complete coverage of principles and phenomena
with testable engineering science theories and tools
but not applicable to antique handcrafted software
because soft pattern hacking models are a mystery

19. The Internet of Robots Innovation Cycle
Internet of Islands innovation is costly & lengthy
but Internet of Robots innovation is quick and easy
in much the same way as cooking innovation
incremental innovation costs are nearly zero
minor innovations take just a few minutes
the minimum viable innovation audience is one
innovation lifecycle costs are negligible
since all Internet robots are unique
so innovation is continuous, evolutionary

20. Plain Language is Intrinsically Mechanistic
because the minutia of modern life is mechanistic
diverse sorts of familiar subject matter mechanics
with about a million subject matter specialties
plain language = practical + personal language
practical language is grounded in physical reality
so its meaning is always entirely mechanistic
some personal language lacks strong mechanics
but this language can be strengthened sufficiently
and much personal language has strong mechanics

21. Plain Language and Plain Logic are Sufficient
the only tools we have for modeling modern life
they’re mass technologies evolving for ten millennia
and they’re always perfect for all practical purpose
due to the invisible hand of information economics
that’s why there’s no need for private languages
the sole exception is handcrafted software hacking
now plain language has been ported to the Internet
and this is the beginning of Internet industrialization
because everyone’s now an Internet robotics expert

22. Robots Provide Unlimited Internet Scalability
someday the Internet will become a single vast robot
made up of layered levels of smaller robots
because the modern world is one vast mechanism
made up of layered levels of smaller mechanisms
in this way robots reflect the reality of modern life
robots are subject matter state mechanics automata
and these are always strictly additive at all scales
so there will be no isolated Internet robot islands
handcrafted software models are symbol automata
these are never additive so each is an Internet island

23. Engineering Automata Theory
the solid engineering science behind Internet robots
fully unifies all sorts of subject matter mechanics
throughout all basic, natural, and applied sciences
about a hundred basic kinds of automata models
all share the same differential, dimensional logic
the plain logic of plain language is mechanistic
so this logic is readily reducible to automata models
synthesis turns automata models into software
with perfect plain language documentation
and total automated test coverage

24. Internet of Robots Standardization
plain language itself is the only standard required
this is the strongest modeling standard possible
it’s always the beginning of all other standards
we all use plain language in exactly the same way
and that’s exactly why it always works so well
plain language is implementation independent
so plain language models never become obsolete
and they work with all existing Internet standards
this solves the ISO layer 7 standardization problem
that’s the thorny application layer problem

25. The Internet of Robots Enables the Internet of Things
the Internet of Things hasn’t happened yet
just billions of digital things on the Internet so far
nearly all these things are isolated Internet islands
with vast untapped automation value potential
but all automation applications are special cases
and handcrafting the required software is impractical
so mass custom software industrialization is required
and Internet robots are the perfect solution
digital things and robots are a match made in heaven
they’re the Internet of Mechanization building blocks

26. Robot Specialization is Simple
there are no start from scratch robots on the Internet
all new robots evolve from some existing robot
often from one of thousands of stock starter robots
then each is specialized for some particular purpose
using familiar plain language visual or verbal models
this is how robots are precisely personalized
all robots work with many other robots
so all robots must constantly coevolve
and each is frequently regenerated

27. A Plain Logic Refresher
recall the elements of exposition from middle school
these elements are rigor, rationale, and rhetoric
rigor: quantity and quality
rationale: who, what, where, when, why, how
rhetoric: compare, contrast, classify, and compose
these elements expose plain language structures
they’re strong mechanistic meaning structures
a simple logic easily testable in the laboratory of life
they’re practical logics based on physical reality
shared by all the hard sciences and high technologies

28. Strong Specification Systems
strong specification has a simple acid test:
can you always say all you mean & mean all you say,
without ever saying too much or tool little,
with safely and simplicity for any subject matter?
plain language is the only workable way to do this
for any and all specialized practical purposes
so all other specification systems are very soft
including all possible programming languages
plus all other purely symbolic specification systems

29. The Internet of Robots is Asynchronous
the Internet is already becoming asynchronous
node.js and browser code are primary examples
but spreadsheets are asynchronous automata too
Internet robots are nested asynchronous automata
all robots share strong mass scale world models
how the world works and how we work in the world
these are plain language and plain logic models
so you can always see what your robots are doing
no need for obscure artificial logics and languages

30. Will Robots Lead to an Internet Singularity?
robots are based on automation technology, not AI
robots are powered by our collective intelligence
just like everything else in the modern world
robots are new Internet collective intelligence tools
and in this way they’ll help the world get far smarter
but robots can’t be smarter than a pencil & paper
that’s the fundamental specification technology limit
the singularity is a science fiction superintelligence
that requires a totally new specification technology
and even the AI folks have no idea what this might be