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The World Wide Web (WWW) is a globally interconnected system of documents, data, and services accessible via the internet, originally developed by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989. It operates through standardized protocols such as HTTP and HTML, enabling users and machines to retrieve, share, and interact with information across networked servers worldwide. In robotics and AI, the Web serves as a critical infrastructure layer, enabling robots and intelligent systems to access vast knowledge bases, download software updates, share sensor data across distributed platforms, and communicate with cloud computing resources in real time. It underpins technologies like the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud robotics, and edge computing, where robots offload computationally intensive tasks to remote servers. It also facilitates collaborative research, open-source software distribution (such as ROS packages), and large-scale dataset sharing essential for machine learning. The Web matters because it transforms isolated robotic systems into globally connected agents, dramatically expanding their capabilities, enabling continuous learning, and supporting human-robot interaction at scale across diverse applications from healthcare to smart manufacturing.

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