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The plan to Build a Massive Online Brain for All the World's Robots
This is what RoboBrain seeks to create. Building the right online storage system, Jami says, is a crucial step to integrating the 100,000 data sources and various types of supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms the researchers hope to merge into one huge online network..... read more
Published by: Wired
How the new ‘Dislike’ button will help Facebook know even more about you
That’s helpful not just to Facebook, but also to the ecosystem of companies built on top of it. Jami recently founded Predict Effect, a startup that uses data from blogs, news articles and social networks like Facebook and Twitter to create profiles of users that marketers can use to target ads and grow their user base. The Dislike button could be a boon for social intelligence businesses like this.The company currently infers “dislike” using sentiment analysis of posts and comments, said Jami, but that’s not as reliable a signal as a dislike button..... read more
Published by: Fusion
The “Robo Brain” Will Use The Internet To Teach Robots
In searching for knowledge, a robot’s brain makes its own chain and looks for one in the knowledge base that matches within those limits. “The Robo Brain will look like a gigantic, branching graph with abilities for multi-dimensional queries,” said Aditya Jami, a visiting researcher art Cornell, who designed the large-scale database for the brain. Perhaps something that looks like a chart of relationships between Facebook friends, but more on the scale of the Milky Way Galaxy..... read more
Published by: TechCrunch
‘Robo Brain’ will teach robots everything from the Internet
A robot’s computer brain stores what it has learned in a form mathematicians call a Markov model, which can be represented graphically as a set of points connected by lines (formally called nodes and edges) said Aditya Jami, a visiting researcher art Cornell, who designed the large-scale database for the brain...... read more
Published by: KurzweilAI
Robotic brain 'learns' skills from the internet
Roboticists at Brown, Cornell, Stanford and Berkeley described a database called Robo Brain, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, that is intended to offer an Internet-based repository of images and videos to give robots support for performing actions in the physical world. For example, information on how to identify, grasp and carry a coffee mug would be accessible to any robot or robotic arm connected to the Internet..... read more
Published by: The New York Times
Finding the 'Holy Grail' of Making Smarter Robots
Robots that can learn how to do just about anything, including anticipating what their human owners are about to do, may be lurking around the corner if scientists at four leading research universities and several high tech companies achieve their goal. No human assistance needed. Robots anywhere in the world will be able to call up Robo Brain and find out how to pour a cup of coffee, or assemble a bike, or build a better world... read more
Published by: ABC News
"Robo Brain" to teach robots about the human world
A new system being developed by computer scientists at Cornell University can both "learn" new information from the Internet and serve as a resource for increasingly intelligent robots... read more
Published by: CBSNews.com
This robot is using YouTube videos to learn all about us
Everything your future robotic servant needs to know, he can learn from Google. Cornell's "Robo Brain," which went online in July, is successfully perusing around one billion images, 120,000 YouTube videos and 100 million how-to manuals. Using these downloaded materials as a guide, the Robo Brain will develop a complex understanding of what different objects are and how to interact with them successfully... read more
Published by: The Washington Post
Robo Brain’ to teach robots how to mimic humans
A super-intelligent robotic "brain" that can learn new skills by browsing millions of web pages has been developed by US researchers.Robo Brain is designed to acquire a vast range of skills and knowledge from publicly available information sources such as YouTube.The information it learns can then be accessed by robots around the world, helping them to perform everyday tasks.... read more
Published by: BBC
Robo Brain Lets Robots Learn From The Internet
Cornell University has turned on its Robo Brain project that could allow robots to learn skills by analysing images, YouTube videos and how-to documents. Computer science professor Ashutosh Saxena told CNET: "Our laptops and cell phones have access to all the information we want... read more
Published by: Sky News
'Robo Brain' mines the Internet to teach robots
To serve as helpers in our homes, offices and factories, robots will need to understand how the world works and how the humans around them behave. Robotics researchers have been teaching them these things one at a time: How to find your keys, pour a drink, put away dishes, and when not to interrupt two people having a conversation.This will all come in one package with Robo Brain, a giant repository of knowledge collected from the Internet and stored in a robot-friendly format that robots will be able to draw on when they need it....said Aditya Jami, a visiting researcher at Cornell who designed the large-scale database for the brain.... read more
Published by: Cornell Chronicle
Robo Brain uses the web to teach robots human knowledge
One of the steps towards to making robots into the all powerful overlords envisioned in books and movies is to teach them all human knowledge. A project named Robo Brain can do this without any help from humans, trawling the web in search of information and then sharing it with robots.The project is being carried out by academics at Cornell University's Department of Computer Sciences. The team behind the Robo Brain project (Aditya Jami, Kevin Lee, Prof. Ashutosh Saxena, Ashesh Jain, Ozan Sener and Chenxia Wu).... read more
Published by: Gizmag
Cornell Scientists Create ‘Robo Brain’ to Teach Robots to Learn from Humans
Two researchers have created “Robo Brain” — a large-scale computational system that learns from publicly available Internet resources — to teach robots how humans naturally behave.The exclusive data bank for robots will help the machines learn how to find keys, pour a drink, put away dishes, and when not to interrupt two people having a conversation.... read more
Published by: Yahoo Tech
Scientists create one robot brain to rule them all
"The Robo Brain will look like a gigantic, branching graph with abilities for multidimensional queries," said Aditya Jami, a visiting researcher at Cornell, in a statement. It might look something like a chart of relationships between Facebook friends but more on the scale of the Milky Way."Only the four institutions involved in the work have access to Robo Brain, though Saxena said he hopes that within six months, that number should grow to 10. In two years, he hopes 100 institutions and companies will have access to it.... read more
Published by: Computerworld
Quantum keys sent over 200-km fiber-optic link
The latest rage in encryption technology is called “quantum encryption.” In an experiment conducted at a Stanford lab, particles of light serving as “quantum keys” have been sent over a record-setting 200-kilometer fiber-optic link. Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), NTT Corp. in Japan, and Stanford University used mostly standard components and transmitting at telecommunications frequencies. .... read morePublished by: Homeland Security News Wire
Robo Brain Uses the Internet to Teach Robots
The robot takeover is officially underway. A computational system called Robo Brain teaches itself by using publicly available Internet resources. It is currently downloading and processing about a billion images, 120,000 YouTube videos, and 100 million how-to documents and manuals. The information will be translated and stored in a format that will allow robots to access and learn from...explains Aditya Jami read more
Published by: Not Impossible Now
Robo Brain Teaches a Robot to Fish
A team of university researchers have been busy building Robo Brain, a large-scale computational system that collates information from the Internet, as well as data from computer simulations and real-life robot trials, and learns from it... read more
Published by: Tech News World
Robo Brain’ to teach robots how to mimic humans
Researchers, including Indian—origin scientists, have designed a ‘Robo Brain’ that gathers information from the Internet to teach robots how the world works and how the humans around them behave.Robo Brain — a large—scale computational system that learns from publicly available Internet resources — is currently downloading and processing about 1 billion images, 120,000 YouTube videos, and 100 million how—to documents and appliance manuals.... read more
Published by: The Hindu Business Line
Indian-origin researchers create `Robo Brain`
Washington: Two Indian-origin researchers have created a large computational system known as `Robo Brain`. The computational system extracts information available on the internet that will help robots to gain knowledge on human behaviour, language and mannerism... read more
Published by: Zee news
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Robo Brain Uses Internet to Understand Human Behavior
Two researchers at Cornell University have developed a large-scale computational system called "Robo Brain" that uses the internet to learn about human behavior and language. By using internet resources that are made available to the public, Robo Brain will teach other robots different behaviors, such as finding keys, putting dishes away, and manners, including not interrupting people who are having a conversation, according to Yahoo! Tech... read more
Published by: HNGN
'Robo Brain' Helps Teach Robots All They Need to Know from the Internet
Robo brain--otherwise known as a large computational system that learns from publicly available internet resources--will help robots draw on new knowledge and sharpen previously existing skills. Researchers at Cornell University, Stanford and Brown University of California, Berkeley have worked to teach the robots certain skills one at a time, such as finding an owner's keys, pouring a drink or even putting the dishes away... read more
Published by: Science World Report
Robo Brain learns how humans live, will be guru to other robots
Robotics researchers understand the increasing roles of robots at home, the workplace, and factories. For this reason, they see the importance of making robots understand how things are done in the real world and how to better understand the humans that they would come in contact with. As a result, researchers have deduced that teaching robots one skill after another can help them cope with the real world. Some of the skills involve finding one's keys, filling in a glass with something to drink, and having some common sense to decide whether it's right or wrong to cut in the conversation between two people... read more
Published by: TechTimes
Robo Brain Helps To Develop Human Like Robots
Two researchers at Cornell University are working on a project that collects information from internet and teaches robots to behave like a human being. The robots are learning to find keys, pour a drink, put away dishes and not to disturb people amidst their conversation. Ashutosh Saxena, who is working on this project explained that, we are creating a ‘Robo Brain’, which is a large database of information on the cloud, when robot needs to work in the situation in which he has not been before, it can connect to the ‘Robo Brain’ and collect the information... read more
Published by: EFY Times
Scientists are using YouTube clips to teach robots about human behavior
All that time spent watching YouTube videos can definitely teach you something, especially if you're a robot. Scientiests at Cornell are using the video platform as a learning tool for robots looking to learn about the daily life of humans. "Robo Brain," the database created by visiting researcher Aditya Jami, can teach robots how to function when encountering new situations in the wild... read more
Published by: The Daily Dot
Robots Learn about Humans with Robo Brain
‘Robo Brain’ is a large-scale system that scours the Internet to teach robots on human behavior. The system from the publicly available Internet resources learns and teaches robots on how to think... read more
Published by: Tech Live Info
Robo Brain to teach Robots about Human Behaviour
Indian-origin researchers have created 'Robo Brain', a large-scale computational system that learns from internet, to teach other robots how the world works and how humans behave. Currently, Robo Brain is processing about 120,000 YouTube videos and a billion images from internet. According to researchers, the information is being translated and stored in the format that robots can understand. When needed, the robots can draw the information... read more
Published by: Austrian Tribune
Cornell’s ‘Robo Brain’ Helps Robots Learn
Researchers at Cornell University are developing “Robo Brain”, a knowledgebase/database that could be an invaluable resource for those who build and program robots. To get them to operate and carry out their assigned tasks – which could range from simple household chores to bomb detection or even performing surgery – robots are programmed with specific instructions... read more
Published by: VOA
Scientists Create ‘Robo Brain’ To Teach Robots To Behave Like Humans
Researchers at Cornell University have created a “Robo Brain” that will teach robots how humans behave naturally. It’s a large-scale computational system that learns from the Internet. It could be used by millions of robots to serve as helpers in our offices, factories and homes. Ashutosh Saxena and Aditya Jami, two India-born scientists, described the project at the “2014 Robotics: Science and Systems Conference” in Berkeley... read more
Published by: Value Walk
Robots with an internet of their own! This is the way of the future
A large scale computational system that learns from publicly available Internet resources-called Robo Brain-is currently downloading a processing about 1 billion images, 120,000 YouTube videos, and 100 million how-to documents and appliance manuals. This information will be translated and stored in a robot-friendly format that future robots will be able to draw upon when needed... read more
Published by: Catholic
4 Crazy Cool Things Cornell Professors Are Doing This Week
Ithaca, N.Y. — Today we present our third installment of an Ithaca Voice series highlighting just a handful of the crazy cool things Cornell University professors are researching, writing, designing, discovering, or (insert here) at any given time. We have no doctrinal preferences and no academic prejudices. Our sole criteria is that the professor’s work be, as the headline suggests, “crazy cool.” And, no, we don’t have a precise definition of “crazy cool.”... read more
Published by: The Ithaca Voice
Robo Brain is Learning from the Internet
Robo Brain is now at work examining images and concepts available on the Internet so that it can teach robots how to recognize, grasp and manipulate objects and predict human behavior in the environment... read more
Published by: 33rd Square
Teaching Robots about the World using 'Robo Brain'
Science fiction films like A.I. and I, Robot portray a world entwined with artificial intelligence (AI). However, what we don't see on the big screen is how this technology could work in the real world. A joint partnership involving researchers from Cornell University has started to create a giant repository of knowledge collected from the internet that robots can use to learn new skills... read more
Published by: AZoRobotics
More Input: Robo Brain Big Data System Downloads Internet Content to Educate Robots
In the 1986 family sci-fi film Short Circuit, experimental military robot Johnny 5 becomes "alive" after being struck by lightning and suddenly has an insatiable thirst of knowledge about the human world. Johnny 5 begins devouring all the books, newspapers and TV content he can find in Stephanie Speck's (Ally Sheedy) house, and keeps asking her for "More input!"... read more
Published by: International Business Times
New ‘Robo Brain’ learns from the Internet — will provide robots with constantly updated knowledge
Researchers have developed a large-scale computation system called “Robo Brain” which will teach robots everything they need to know using publicly available Internet resources. At present, the system is downloading and processing about 1 billion images, 120,000 YouTube videos, and 100 million how-to documents and appliance manuals... read more
Published by: Electronic Products
Robo Brain to teach robots everything from the Internet
Indian origin researchers have created 'Robo Brain' - a large-scale computational system that learns from publicly available Internet resources, to teach robots how humans naturally behave... read more
Published by: diGit
Indian-origin Scientists Invent 'Robo Brain' To Help Robots Gain Knowledge
Commanding a robot to do a defined task is nothing new, but letting a robot learn things on its own suprises most of us. Two Indian-origin researchers at Cornell University in New York have created a large computational system known as 'Robo Brain'. With the help of this giant robot brain, millions of machines across the globe can gain knowledge on human behaviour, language and mannerism. 'Robo Brain' extracts information available on the Internet with the help of computational system extracts. It can interpret natural language text, images and videos. This is how robots gain knowledge... read more
Published by: Business Insider
India-born scientist’s Robo Brain is a very fast online learner
Mumbai, Aug 25: In July, scientists from Cornell University led by Ashutosh Saxena said they have developed Robo Brain—a large computational system that learns from publicly available Internet resources. The system, according to a 25 August statement by Cornell, is downloading and processing about 1 billion images, 120,000 YouTube videos and 100 million how-to documents and appliance manuals... read more
Published by: Coastal digest
Robotics Researchers Are Turning The Internet Into A Giant Robot Brain
One of the biggest challenges in building useful robots lies in simply teaching them about our world. Robotics researchers at Cornell, Stanford, Brown, and UC Berkeley are building a compelling solution to this problem, and they're calling it "Robo Brain."... read more
Published by: Alpha Centauri
India-born scientist’s Robo Brain makes rapid strides in Internet learning
In July, scientists from Cornell University led by Ashutosh Saxena said they have developed Robo Brain—a large computational system that learns from publicly available Internet resources. The system, according to a 25 August statement by Cornell, is downloading and processing about 1 billion images, 120,000 YouTube videos and 100 million how-to documents and appliance manuals... read more
Published by: Live Mint
Scientists Teach Robots To “Watch” YouTube Videos And Learn From Them
While people have talked about getting personal robots as assistants for years, Cornell’s doing more than just talking. The university’s “Robo Brain,” which launched online in July, teaches robots how to function in daily life from an extensive database of none other than YouTube videos. The “Robo Brain” database was created by Aditya Jami, a visiting researcher at Cornell... read more
Published by: IMDb
Researchers develop Robo Brain to teach robots about the world
To serve as helpers in our homes, offices and factories, robots will need to understand how the world works and how the humans around them behave. Robotics researchers have been teaching them these things one at a time: How to find your keys, pour a drink, put away dishes, and when not to interrupt two people having a conversation... read more
Published by: Science & Technology World
Robots can now tab ‘Robo Brain’ for info of all sorts, all occasions
‘Robo Brain’ is set to inculcate those sophisticated manners in robots that are found among people serving in top restaurants and five star hotels. These are going to teach them how to behave, how to present a drink, how not to interrupt while two or more people are talking and many more things... read more
Published by: NVO News
“RoboBrain” Will Use Cloud to Teach Robots
When Cornell researches started “RoboBrain,” it had many heads turn in their direction. And while some are fearing the “inevitable” war between humans and machines (with RoboBrain as a real-life version of Termninators), those who have their feet planted more firmly on the ground saw it for what it was – an ingenious system that will teach robots to think better and ultimately make our lives easier... read more
Published by: Cloudwards
A human step for artificial intelligence
They still need instructions, but they no longer need to be so detailed. Now you can just say “make me a bowl of noodles”, rather than telling them that they need to heat the water, too... read more
Published by: City A.M.
Robo Brain to teach “how to behave like humans” for robots
Researchers, together with Indian-origin scientists, have designed a ‘Robo Brain’ that gathers data from the web to show robots however the planet works and the way the humans around them behave. Robo Brain – a large-scale computational system that learns from publically obtainable net resources – is presently downloading and process concerning 1 billion images, 120,000 YouTube videos, and 100 million how-to documents and appliance manuals. the data is being translated and hold on in an exceedingly robot-friendly format that robots are going to be ready to draw on after they want it. To function helpers in our homes, offices and factories, robots can got to understand however the planet works and the way the humans around them behave... read more
Published by: Inavit News
Using Casual Voice Commands To Program Robots
Robots of today can do a variety of tasks, but still have to be programmed to do them. The technology that goes into producing these robots has progressed to the point of understanding voice commands. However, if the instructor leaves out any key instructions, the robot could not complete the task effectively.... read more
Published by: redOrbit
The “Robo Brain” Will Use The Internet To Teach Robots
In searching for knowledge, a robot’s brain makes its own chain and looks for one in the knowledge base that matches within those limits. “The Robo Brain will look like a gigantic, branching graph with abilities for multi-dimensional queries,” said Aditya Jami, a visiting researcher art Cornell, who designed the large-scale database for the brain... read more
Published by: USA Business Daily
'Robo Brain' to teach robots how to mimic humans
Washington: Two Indian-origin researchers have created ?Robo Brain? - a large-scale computational system that learns from publicly available internet resources - to teach robots how humans naturally behave. The exclusive data bank for robots will help the machines how to find keys, pour a drink, put away dishes and when not to interrupt two people having a conversation... read more
Published by: Indiaonline
'Robo Brain' will teach robots everything from the Internet
Robo Brain – a large-scale computational system that learns from publicly available Internet resources – is currently downloading and processing about 1 billion images, 120,000 YouTube videos, and 100 million how-to documents and appliance manuals. The information is being translated and stored in a robot-friendly format that robots will be able to draw on when they need it... read more
Published by: SUV System
Robo Brain uses the web to teach robots human knowledge
One of the steps towards to making robots into the all powerful overlords envisioned in books and movies is to teach them all human knowledge. A project named Robo Brain can do this without any help from humans, trawling the web in search of information and then sharing it with robots... Continue Reading Robo Brain uses the web to teach robots human knowledge... read more
Published by: Capitalista
Scientists Robots Learn To Walk In Stages
Program touts unm for course in computer science, To learn science and biology professor, and an external faculty member at the santa fe institute. “but we don’t hold it against anyone who places us second only to mit.” moses had just finished demonstrating and explaining how swarm robots... read more
Published by: Tech Today
The emerging movement of cloud robotics
Backed by funding from the National Science Foundation, researchers hope to create a massive online “brain” that can help all robots navigate and even understand the world around them... read more
Published by: Broadband News
Scientists Create One Robot Brain to Rule Them All
Researchers are creating a single, massive repository of robot knowledge so machines around the world can learn from each other. "Instead of teaching each piece of knowledge to each robot, when a robot goes out in the real world, it can query the brain and learn how to do things."... read more
Published by: Veooz
The robot brain to rule them all: Plans for giant 'central knowledge server' to power millions of machines around the world revealed
Researchers have begun work on a giant 'robot brain' they say could be used by millions of machines around the world... read more
Published by: Newstral
The robot brain to rule them all: Plans for giant 'central knowledge server' to power millions of machines around the world revealed
Researchers have begun work on a giant 'robot brain' they say could be used by millions of machines around the world. It will be a central store for everything from images to details of how to change a plug. Hosted on a server so any robot can access it, the system is currently downloading and processing 1 billion images, 120,000 YouTube videos, and 100 million how-to documents and appliance manuals... read more
Published by: Mail Online
Robots learn from (even bad) human language
Robots are getting smarter, but they still need step-by-step instructions for tasks they haven't performed before. Before you can tell your household robot, “Make me a bowl of ramen noodles,” you'll have to teach it how to do that. Since we're not all computer programmers, we'd prefer to give those instructions in English, just as we'd lay out a task for a child... read more
Published by: Cornell Chronicle
Robot can be programmed by casually talking to it (w/ Video)
Robots are getting smarter, but they still need step-by-step instructions for tasks they haven't performed before. Before you can tell your household robot "Make me a bowl of ramen noodles," you'll have to teach it how to do that. Since we're not all computer programmers, we'd prefer to give those instructions in English, just as we'd lay out a task for a child.... read more
Published by: PHYS.ORG
Indian origin scientist develops robots that understand casual language
A team of scientists at Cornell University has developed a robot that can understand spoken commands given in natural language. The robot has the ability to understand variations in language, fill in missing parts and adapt to its immediate surroundings... read more
Published by: The Times of India
Robots Are Smart—But Can They Understand Us?
In the movies, you never hear robots say “Huh?” For all his anxiety, "Star Wars"' C-3PO was never befuddled. Sonny, the pivotal non-human in "I, Robot" may have been confused about what he was, but didn’t seem to have any trouble understanding Will Smith. In real life, though, machines still struggle mightily with human language... read more
Published by: Smithsonian
Help train robots to understand natural language
The capabilities of robots are improving all the time, but the one thing that hasn't changed is that they still need to be programmed with step-by-step instructions whenever they learn how to do something new. When the time comes -- fingers crossed -- that we all have robot butlers to look after us, this could pose a challenge to those without the requisite programming skills... read more
Published by: Wired.co.uk
Make robots useful by teaching them to talk like us
When Ashutosh Saxena wants some coffee or ice cream, he can ask a robot to make it for him. Tell Me Dave is a large, vaguely humanoid bot that can cook simple meals according to spoken instructions. But programming Tell Me Dave to understand even one kind of order is tricky: humans have an annoying tendency to ask for the same thing in a variety of different ways, or to combine several discrete steps into one short command... read more
Published by: New Scientist
Robot Responds to Natural Language Instructions, Brings You Fancy Ice Cream
It's possible, even probable, that if you're reading this article on IEEE Spectrum, you either know how to program a robot or could figure it out if you really put your mind to it. But for the rest of us (indeed for most people), programming is not necessarily a skill that they have at their fingertips. And even if you're comfortable with writing code in general, writing code that gets a very complicated and expensive robot to do exactly what you want it to do is (to put it mildly) not easy... read more
Published by: IEEE Spectrum
New robot learns from plain speech, not computer code [Video]
In a small kitchen, an amateur cook roots around in the cupboard for a package of ramen. He fills a pot with water, tosses in the noodles, and sets them on the stove to cook. But this chef won’t enjoy the fruits of his labor. That’s because he’s a robot who is learning to translate simple spoken instructions into the complex choreography needed to make a meal... read more
Published by: Los Angeles Times
Cornell team creates robot that understands casual commands, makes dessert (video)
The Robot Learning Lab released two videos showing a robot translating casual commands to make Top Ramen and an ice cream sundae. The first video reveals how the robot translates language into logical connectives, and the second shows an ice-cream-serving version that’s sure to the make the powerful fro-yo union go cray cray... read more
Published by: VentureBeat
New research shows robots can learn quite a bit when fed a lot of data
A trio of research projects out of Cornell, MIT and the University of Washington highlight the promise of building robots that can learn to do the things we want them to, but also suggest that patience on behalf of programmers will be a real virtue. Like any application of machine learning, robots will need a whole lot of data and possibly a whole lot of training... read more
Published by: Gigaom
Robot, Make Me A Sandwich! Tell Me Dave Is A Robot That Can Do Pretty Much Whatever You Order It To
Pretty soon, you might be asking robots to clean up after you and prepare your meals. At least, that's the future that's going to come about if researchers at Cornell University have their way. They're using human volunteers as part of a project called Tell Me Dave (pretty sure that's a throwback to HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey, which makes it even more awesome). With the help of their volunteers, they're slowly but surely teaching robots how to infer actions based on relatively vague human commands - for example "go pick that pen up" instead of "move one foot, move arm five inches, and retrieve pen."... read more
Published by: InventorSpot
"Tell me Dave" robot learns simply by people talking to it
Many robots today are able to follow verbal instructions. However, the robot first has to be programmed with software code that allows it to respond to those instructions in some predetermined way, and that software must be added to every time the robot's task list is enhanced. Wouldn’t it be easier if we could just avoid all that messy fiddling about with software and talk to a machine as we would a human and explain what we wanted it to do? Researchers at Cornell University thought so, that’s why they designed and built a learning robot as part of their "Tell me Dave" project... read more
Published by: Gizmag
Crowd Teaches Robot With Video Games
While scientists have created robots that look like humans, teaching a robot to think and respond like a human is a more challenging task. Even the most basic spoken command, such as “Heat a kettle of water on the stove”, has a slew of unspoken assumptions that are understood before the action is taken: the location of the kettle, whether it already contains water, how to turn the faucet on, and so on. In robotics, these complexities are usually handled by writing actions directly into a robot’s code, but this leaves anyone without advanced programming knowledge unable to interact with the robot... read more
Published by: PSFK
Tell Me Dave Lets You Train A Robot To Respond To Complex Commands
Sudo make me a sandwich, anyone? A new research project by a computer science team at Cornell University is using human volunteers to train robots to perform tasks. How is it unique? They’re showing robots how to infer actions based on very complex, human comments. Instead of having to say “move arm left 5 inches” they are hoping that, one day, robots will respond to “Make me some ramen” or “Clean up my mess.”... read more
Published by: Techcrunch
Working with the Chaos Monkey
Late last year, the Netflix Tech Blog wrote about five lessons they learned moving to Amazon Web Services. AWS is, of course, the preeminent provider of so-called "cloud computing", so this can essentially be read as key advice for any website considering a move to the cloud. And it's great advice, too. Here's the one bit that struck me as most essential... read more
Published by: Coding Horror
Chaos Monkey Released Into The Wild
We have found that the best defense against major unexpected failures is to fail often. By frequently causing failures, we force our services to be built in a way that is more resilient. We are excited to make a long-awaited announcement today that will help others who embrace this approach... read more
Published by: The Netflix Tech Blog
Netflix attacks own network with “Chaos Monkey”—and now you can too
Failure is the last thing you want when running a huge network, particularly one that supports a multi-billion dollar business. But preventing failure requires practice and good planning—and that's why Netflix developed software that attacks its own network more than 1,000 times a week... read more
Published by: Ars Technica
Netflix open sources cloud-testing Chaos Monkey
Netflix has a gift for anybody who needs to ensure their cloud-hosted applications keep running even if some of the virtual servers on which they’re running die. It’s called a Chaos Monkey — but don’t worry, this monkey is very tameable and is now open source.... read more
Published by: Gigaom
Netflix Open Sources Chaos Monkey – A Tool Designed To Cause Failure So You Can Make A Stronger Cloud
Netflix has open sourced “Chaos Monkey,” its tool designed to purposely cause failure in order to increase the resiliency of an application in Amazon Web Services (AWS.)It’s a timely move as AWS has had its fair share of outages. With tools like Chaos Monkey, companies can be better prepared when a cloud infrastructure has a failure.... read more
Published by: Techcrunch
Chaos Monkey: How Netflix Uses Random Failure to Ensure Success
In a post last week about lessons learned using Amazon Web Services, Netflix's John Ciancutti revealed that the company built something called "Chaos Monkey" to ensure that individual components work independently. Chaos Monkey randomly kills instances and services within Netflix's AWS infrastructure to help developers to make sure each individual component returns something even when system dependencies aren't responding... read more
Published by: ReadWrite
How your business could learn from Chaos Monkey
We live in a world that’s obsessed with the cloud and hosting almost everything it possibly can on it. It’s new, it’s easy to access, almost anyone can do it and it’s cheap. Unfortunately with everyone jumping on the bandwagon it’s starting to show its cracks, and many businesses aren’t building their web applications the right way or even considering the new ways their applications could fail... read more
Published by: The Next Web
Agile DevOps: Unleash the Chaos Monkey
When would it ever be a good idea to randomly and intentionally try to terminate parts of your software system — including the hardware it runs on? How about early and often? In this Agile DevOps installment, DevOps expert Paul Duvall describes approaches to creating a Chaos Monkey (as it's been dubbed by Netflix) to ensure that your production infrastructure can recover from inevitable system failures... read more
Published by: IBM developerWorks
Chaos-monkey-browser
Chaos Monkey is an idea originally outlined by the Netflix tech team. The basic idea is to have something in your stack that causes random failures in your system, so you’ll be forced to make your app resilient against random failure... read more
Published by: NPM
Netflix uncages Chaos Monkey disaster testing system
Netflix has released Chaos Monkey, which it uses internally to test the resiliency of its Amazon Web Services cloud computing architecture, making available for free one of the tools the video streaming company uses to keep its massive cloud computing architecture running... read more
Published by: Network World
Netflix Unleashes Chaos Monkey as its Latest Open Source Tool
Netflix has just open-sourced its much talked about “Chaos Monkey” software which intentionally takes servers offline as a way to test the resiliency of a cloud environment. This is another in a long line of internally developed tools that Netflix has chosen to freely share with the technical community... read more
Published by: InfoQ
How Netflix keeps its cloud strong by using virtual 'monkeys' to unplug servers at random
SAN FRANCISCO — What does not kill me, makes me stronger. So said Nietzsche, Conan the Barbarian, and Kelly Clarkson. Now Netflix cloud director Ariel Tseitlin is taking that philosophy to its natural limit in the world of the cloud. Every day, he unleashes an army of virtual monkeys on his company’s computing infrastructure, trying to kill it. Every day, it survives — and it gets stronger, more resilient, and more resistant to real outages. By now, it is almost unkillable... read more
Published by: VentureBeat
DevOps and the Chaos Monkey
Would you intentionally create a service that arbitrarily (within constraints) shuts down other things in your environment? I wouldn’t, but Netflix did with its “Chaos Monkey,” —why? Why would someone do this?.. read more
Published by: SDxCentral
NAB deploys Chaos Monkey to kill servers 24/7
The National Australia Bank has deployed the Netflix-developed 'Chaos Monkey' tool on a 24/7 basis to give its website development team some relief from needing to respond to server emergencies outside of work hours... read more
Published by: IT news
Open source Chaos Monkey brings order to cloud
The open source zoo of animals just got another occupant with the source code release of Netflix' Chaos Monkey. "Chaos Monkey" is a name that very aptly describes what this application does. You set this bad boy loose inside your cloud infrastructure and it will start terminating instances within the cloud. On first glance, this kind of application sounds, well, insane. But there is method to Netflix' madness... read more
Published by: IT world
Out in the Open: Netflix Unleashes the ‘Monkey’ That Keeps Its Systems Secure
Netflix has open sourced another member of its “Simian Army,” the monkey-monikered tools its engineers use to manage the enormous number of machines that drive its popular video streaming service. The latest is called Security Monkey, and it’s a tool for monitoring and analyzing the security of its systems... read more
Published by: Wired
Let loose your Chaos Monkey
No matter the size of your IT infrastructure, you've built in some form of redundancy, whether it's as simple as RAID in direct-attached storage on your servers or as complex as multiple, cascaded, geographically separated hot sites... read more
Published by: InfoWorld
Designing for resilience: A case for a network Chaos Monkey
In 2011, Netflix quite famously talked about their Simian Army. The Simian Army is essentially a bunch of tools that randomly wreak havoc in their production environment. The name refers to unleashing an army of armed monkeys on your data center to smash devices and chew through cables. By driving random failures into the middle of highly monitored systems in the middle of the day, they identify weaknesses in their production environment at a time when their staff is on-hand and alert to respond... read more
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Netflix Wants You To Adopt Chaos Monkey
Netflix is a high-profile consumer service. When things go wrong, people tend to notice. So it might seem strange that the company tries to make things go wrong with its service on a regular basis... read more
Published by: Dark Reading
The Antifragile Organization
Failure is inevitable. Disks fail. Software bugs lie dormant waiting for just the right conditions to bite. People make mistakes. Data centers are built on farms of unreliable commodity hardware. If you're running in a cloud environment, then many of these factors are outside of your control. To compound the problem, failure is not predictable and doesn't occur with uniform probability and frequency. The lack of a uniform frequency increases uncertainty and risk in the system... read more
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Announcing Priam
We talked in the past about our move to NoSQL and Cassandra has been a big part of that strategy. Cassandra hit a big milestone recently with the announcement of the v1 release. We recently announced Astyanax, Netflix's Java Cassandra client with an improved API and connections management which we open sourced last month... read more
Published by: The Netflix Tech Blog
Netflix Announces Priam, Improves Cassandra Functionality
As some recent polls have indicated, the expected adoption and implementation of NoSQL databases are set to increase exponentially in the coming year. The Netflix tech blog recently announced the release of Priam, which runs along with Cassandra to provide various kinds of functionality (more on that in a minute). It seems that Netflix has been doing a lot to develop Astyanax, Netflix's Java Cassandra client, which they open sourced last month, and this new release of Priam, which adds the following processes to work along with Cassandra, detailed on the Netflix Tech Blog.... read more
Published by: CloudDzone
Breaking Through Cloud Addiction
Cloud computing has become a lot like the Hotel California: Once you pick a provider you can check out anytime you want – but you can never leave. You’ve no doubt heard of “cloud lock-in,” the concept that once you architect and optimize your systems on a single infrastructure seller you’re effectively stuck with the choice. It’s an unattractive idea, especially in an industry moving as quickly as cloud computing is... read more
Published by: Techcrunch