Robot-as-a-Service: From Cloud to Peering Technologies

• Main Authors: Aleksandr Kapitonov, Sergey Lonshakov, Vitaly Bulatov, Babak Kia Montazam, James White
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-05-01
• Series: Frontiers in Robotics and AI
• Subjects: robot economics; cloud criticism; autonomous agents; centralized and decentralized systems; Robot-as-a-Service
• Online Access: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frobt.2021.560829/full

This article is devoted to the historical overview of the Robot-as-a-Service concept. Several major scientific publications on the development of Robot-as-a-Service systems based on a service-oriented paradigm are considered. Much attention is paid to the analysis of a centralized approach in the development using cloud computing services and the search for the limitations of this approach. As a result, general conclusions on the reviewed publications are given, as well as the authors' own vision of Robot-as-a-Service systems based on the concept of robot economics.