https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32310799
The idea of this project is to build an "embodied" AGI that has some ability to experience the physical world in a way that's at least analogous to the way a human does. So far I have been working on a lot of low level "plumbing", but I just finished getting the cellular modem / GPS adapter working, so now the bot can "sense" its position on the surface of the earth, and its velocity (if moving). Next steps include a 9 DOF accelerometer board for more localized sensing of changes of orientation in space, a camera, a microphone, and "other" sensors - possibly to include the aforementioned barometric pressure sensor, temperature sensor, etc.
Will this lead anywhere? I have no idea. But it seems like a possibly fertile avenue to explore.
It seems to me that would be rather easy these days. Each of those devices can be online. Each can publish its measurements onto a message queue. Any "intelligence" can subscribe to that and make of it what it will.
Basically the internet can be the extended nervous system of a computer-based intelligence.