WI-FI PASSIVE OR ON-DEMAND INTERNET-OF-THINGS REGIONAL STATE DEVICE FOR PHYSICAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS

An environment-resident regional state device maintains machine-readable physical state for robots and other physical artificial intelligence systems. The device receives a regional state contribution from a first physical AI system, persists the contribution after the first system departs, and later provides state derived from the contribution to a second physical AI system that did not communicate directly with the first system. Regional state may include hazards, occupancy, reservations, infrastructure, terrain, resources, access, policies, or predicted physical conditions. The device may be continuously powered, intermittently powered, dormant, passive, batteryless, or activated or powered by an inquiry signal from an approaching physical AI system. Source identity, observation time, confidence, validity, provenance, and state aging may be maintained. A receiving physical AI system can obtain the regional state before locally sensing the represented condition and modify navigation, manipulation, reservation, validation, or another physical-world operation.