Towards Unified Human-Robotic Societies

Large numbers of robotic facilities have been accumulated worldwide, but existing robots still remain specialized devices rather than intelligent collaborators for humans. To effectively integrate massive robotics into human societies, radically new and much more universal approaches are needed. A semantic level model supported by special pattern-based knowledge processing language is described. It expresses operations and decisions in distributed spaces in a very compact and mobile form, with traditional system organization and management essentially shifted to automatic language interpretation in cooperative networked environments. Communicating language interpreters, associated with humans and robots, can form holistic goal-driven teams under unified command and control, where humans and robots, if needed, can seamlessly substitute each other at runtime, during scenario execution. The paper provides details of the proposed ideology and technology, especially of its basic scenario language with distributed networked implementation. Examples of solving practical problems from different fields with the effective use of multiple cooperative robotic facilities under the approach offered are exhibited too.