Showing posts with label Nico. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nico. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

If this robot can recognize its reflection, does self-awareness?

  So far, most of the evidence level robotics were to test whether robots could move properly, if they could meet certain simple functions, etc. But this is over, and that we may soon witness a new generation of robots with self-awareness, which for the most paranoid Terminator equals. Leaving aside the fiction, this robot named Nico has been created in a robotics lab at Yale, and it is tested with mirrors, which have also been...