Two Bots, One Brain

Abstract

Humans communicate knowledge and coordinate actions through natural language exchanges, effectively externalizing their thoughts as they cannot directly access each others' minds. This, however, is not a limitation for artificial agents like robots which can easily access its each others' minds directly. Specifically, with the right provisions, cognitive robotic architectures can enable robots to directly access each others' control systems and the knowledge contained therein. They can even enable robots to share components of their architecture analogous to the human case of craniopagus twins that have direct brain connections. In the robotic case, however, the robot bodies do not have to be physically connected; rather, their ``brains'' can communicate through wireless connections.