RoboEarth is a project designed to network robots so each can add and pull information from a central repository. By sharing their "experiences", the robots can learn more quickly and access content to help them adapt to each process. The company's website provides this explanation of the online system:

The RoboEarth Cloud Engine (also called Rapyuta) makes powerful computation available to robots. It allows robots to offload their heavy computation to secure computing environments in the cloud with minimal configuration. The Cloud Engine’s computing environments provide high bandwidth access to the RoboEarth knowledge repository enabling robots to benefit from the experience of other robots.

It appears Rapyuta allows robots to process interacting with their local environment at a local level (through their own software, inputs and processors), but can go online to offload complex decisions from a system capable of pulling from the experiences (data) of other robots. Interesting, becuase they could use experiences from robots which serve a very different purpose, but could have overlapping needs.

A live event started last week at the Eindhoven University of Technology, where four robots will collaborate to assist patients in a mock hospital setting. The robots will share data, such as facial recognition of hospital personnel and patients, in order to better interact with their surroundings.