18. An apparatus for an autonomous machine to perform a task in an environment, the apparatus comprising: means to receive data collected by a distributed capture technique, said data comprising at least one class of knowledge associated with the task; means to automatically process said at least one class of knowledge associated with the task to produce one or more categories of class rules, wherein said processing comprises filtering and extracting the at least one class of knowledge, and wherein the class rules comprise specific relationships within the at least one class of knowledge; and means to formulate a set of meta-rules that extract information from two or more categories of class rules to orchestrate an application of said class rules within the environment, each meta-rule identifying information from two or more categories of class rules; means to, responsive to a first category of class rules missing information associated with the task, apply a meta-rule to retrieve the missing information associated with the task from a second category of class rules.
18. An apparatus for an autonomous machine to perform a task in an environment, the apparatus comprising: means to receive data collected by a distributed capture technique, said data comprising at least one class of knowledge associated with the task; means to automatically process said at least one class of knowledge associated with the task to produce one or more categories of class rules, wherein said processing comprises filtering and extracting the at least one class of knowledge, and wherein the class rules comprise specific relationships within the at least one class of knowledge; and means to formulate a set of meta-rules that extract information from two or more categories of class rules to orchestrate an application of said class rules within the environment, each meta-rule identifying information from two or more categories of class rules; means to, responsive to a first category of class rules missing information associated with the task, apply a meta-rule to retrieve the missing information associated with the task from a second category of class rules. 20. The apparatus of claim 18 , wherein said class of knowledge comprises at least one of: action-object pairs, task steps, responses to situations, causes and effects, alternate action-object pairs, uses of objects, likely uses of objects, locations of objects, likely locations of objects, synonym replacement, and verb tense replacement.