Robots Learn Best Online, Not From Individual Human

As Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Google Inc (NSADAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) battle to dominate the computer-networked house, car and apparel products industry, creating potentially the most track-able, monitored and controlled society in history, comes news that robots learn better when their human master isn't involved.

"We are trying to create a method for a robot to seek help from the whole world when it is puzzled by something,” Rajesh Rao, associate professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle, was quoted in a report saying. “This is a way to go beyond...