RESEARCH QUESTIONS
What should one robot be allowed to know about another?
Identity
Each robot needs a stable identity independent from a transient network session.
Pairing
Relationships should be established explicitly rather than inferred from network reachability.
Permissions
Shared values, state and capabilities should be permissioned at a granular level.
State + intent
Dynamic state and future intent may both matter for safe multi-agent coordination.
Time alignment
Robot Chronograf can provide a common language for temporal uncertainty and event ordering.
Spatial alignment
Agents also need an explicit way to relate their local coordinate frames and shared space.
ETHER
Collective behavior belongs above individual embodiment.
The canonical Ether domain reserves space for inter-agent coordination, shared computation and collective protocols. RGD Mesh research asks what a minimal, inspectable transport and relationship model could look like without making the network itself the source of robot identity.