RODEO: RObotic DEcentralized Organization
Milan Groshev, Eduardo Castell\'o Ferrer

TL;DR
RODEO introduces a blockchain-based framework for service robots, enabling auditable actions, transparent decision-making, and autonomous organization, demonstrated through a trash-collecting robot that earned and reinvested tokens for extended operation.
Contribution
This paper formalizes decentralized autonomous organizations for robots, providing a ROS-ETH bridge, templates for integration, and proof-verification mechanisms for auditable robot actions.
Findings
Robot doubled its income in three days.
Proof validation times were approximately one minute.
Robot's income funded up to 88 hours of future operation.
Abstract
Robots are improving their autonomy with minimal human supervision. However, auditable actions, transparent decision processes, and new human-robot interaction models are still missing requirements to achieve extended robot autonomy. To tackle these challenges, we propose RODEO (RObotic DEcentralized Organization), a blockchain-based framework that integrates trust and accountability mechanisms for robots. This paper formalizes Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) for service robots. First, it provides a ROS-ETH bridge between the DAO and the robots. Second, it offers templates that enable organizations (e.g., companies, universities) to integrate service robots into their operations. Third, it provides proof-verification mechanisms that allow robot actions to be auditable. In our experimental setup, a mobile robot was deployed as a trash collector in a lab scenario. The robot…
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Taxonomy
TopicsBlockchain Technology Applications and Security · Robotics and Automated Systems · Transportation and Mobility Innovations
