Using AI To Get Robots To Work Together

Last night as I was trying to sleep, I was thinking about robots and how they would operate in the future. I had wondered how robots would work with us but more importantly, how robots would work with each other because many robots may be built by different companies and may not be on the same communication line. After sleeping on it, I did some research the next day and came across a new article written by UIUC that spoke almost exactly to my curiosity. A few researchers at the Grainger College of Engineering developed a sort of artificial intelligence that used "multi-agent reinforcement learning", a term that I have not heard of before. After diving deeper into it, the machine basically learns from its past experiences and builds a training method that rewards and punishes certain decisions made by the machine.