> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://robocore-official.gitbook.io/roboc/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://robocore-official.gitbook.io/roboc/robocore-decentralized-minds.-real-world-machines..md).

# RoboCore: Decentralized Minds. Real-World Machines.

<figure><img src="https://3137824769-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FkJFrPtkUjaTuoYXFHjPH%2Fuploads%2Fxdn1TdTIm0TqJtAO5K0t%2FDePAI.png?alt=media&amp;token=2d58e3ee-43b2-433c-a22b-6d32955ccaed" alt=""><figcaption><p>Decentralized Minds. Real-World Machines.</p></figcaption></figure>

RoboCore introduces the world's first decentralized infrastructure designed to power **Physical Artificial Intelligence (PAI)** on the Ethereum blockchain. Unlike traditional AI projects that exist solely in digital realms, RoboCore extends AI into the physical world by integrating **modular AI brains** with **robotic bodies** and connecting them through a smart contract-governed, decentralized economy.

By leveraging blockchain for transparency, token incentives for participation, and open-source robotics and AI development, RoboCore enables a collaborative global effort to build, train, deploy, and coordinate autonomous robots. It introduces innovations such as **AI-Training Mining** (a method to earn crypto by improving AI), **AI-to-Robot Bounties**(on-chain work requests for physical robots), and a decentralized mesh called the **Robot-as-a-Node Network (RaaN)**&#x77;here physical robots function as active participants in the Web3 space.

RoboCore is not just a robotics protocol. It is an economy — a tokenized world where physical machines are intelligent agents, human developers are incentivized collaborators, and AI evolves in a decentralized, unstoppable way.