Browsers and Robotics Community Group Proposed

The Browsers and Robotics Community Group has been proposed:

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This community group will be intended to discuss the applications of web
browsers as the computer for controlling robots (robotics in other
words). And it will be also intended to feed back knowledge obtained
from this discussion to standardization activity about Web of Things.
What kinds of values are contained in using a Web browser not only in
drawing graphical user interface but also in controlling and
manipulating robots, and what kinds of difficulties and problems are
there in that case? To search their answers may become the driving force
of  this activity.
 As an example, there may be the following questions in the discussion.
Is a case applying a Web browser as a simple controller of the robots
which does not have UI such as screens or the pointing devices still
meaningful? For example, connectivity with web services and interlocking
operation between robots (Swarm Robotics via web) may be one of its
values. Is it possible to relate a graphical user interface of HTML to
interactive and physical user interface of the robots? Is it meaningful?
As an example, a relation between a physical push button and 'input'
type="button" element in the HTML may deserve considering. Are cases
using relatively low-level interface used in many robots such as PWM of
the motor, digital or analog signal interfaces, I2C, SPI, UART and GPIOs
by the application on the web browsers meaningful? Is real-time
computing at the same level as RTOS feasible on the web browser-based
general-purpose computing environments?
Initial related activity is Mozilla Factory Open Hardware Project.

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You are invited to support the creation of this group:
  http://www.w3.org/community/groups/proposed#browserobo

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people can join to begin work. Once launched, the group will no longer
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Received on Tuesday, 21 October 2014 15:08:49 UTC