At our company, we’ve been thinking a lot about building communities of robots, robotics devices, robotic control systems and whatever other related systems and devices make sense. Obviously, the first question to be answered is, what do we mean by “communities” and why is it worth talking about.
To begin to answer the question we first need to be clear about how, within our context, we define a community. Our analogy relies on an admittedly idealistic view of community when viewed in a human context. Our definition of a community might be:
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://community.robotshop.com/blog/show/building-robotic-communities