Fog Robotics—Understanding the Research Challenges

Abstract

Fog robotics is an emerging topic that derives from cloud robotics, but similarly as fog computing, the applications require low latency connections in order to be useful in real life environments. This article presents a new perspective to the topic in which not only robotics takes advantage of the fog computing paradigm, but fog computing is able to leverage the robotics technology in order to enhance its features. This work highlights the benefits obtained by each technology when it is mixed with the other and sketches the relevant topics to research in order to make this partnership possible.