Researchers are creating a single, massive repository of robot knowledge so machines around the world can learn from each other.

Dubbed Robo Brain, the repository, which robots can access over the Internet, is designed to let the machines draw on its more than 10 terabytes of data whenever they need it. The knowledge store resides on Amazon Web Service’s public cloud.

“I’m really looking forward to building this brain, with all this information that robots  need,” said Ashutosh Saxena, an assistant professor in the computer science department at Cornell University. “Instead of teaching each piece of knowledge to each robot, when a robot goes out in the real world, it can query the brain and learn how to do things.”

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