Introducing RTP: How AI Agents Will Hire Robots With a Single HTTP Request
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Generative AI
Robotics
There are over 4M industrial robots operating worldwide. Millions drones, 3D printers, smart locks, and IoT devices. Every single one of them speaks a different language. An AI agent can browse the web, write code, call APIs, and pay for cloud compute - all autonomously. But ask it to hire a robot to pick an item off a shelf? There's no standard way to do that. Until now. What is RTP? RTP (Robot Task Protocol) is an open standard that defines a common language for AI agents to discover, commission, and pay for physical robot tasks over the internet.