Scientists from the American Yale university have built a robot that is a form of self-awareness exhibits. The robot can see the position of his own arm in 3d space, and reasoning on the basis of its mirror image.
The robot with the name Nico is programmed to to look in the mirror and to figure it out or he sees herself. At this moment the robot is only aware of his own arm and can Nico the position of his own arm in a 3d space with high precision calculation. It is the first time that a robot of this form of self-awareness is learned. The scientists are now engaged to Nico, the position of other parts of the body to recognize.
The programming of a robot to be self-aware is seen as a major milestone in artificial intelligence. Self-awareness is a key measure of intelligence: where people are aware of themselves are a lot of animals this is not. To test this, use scientists the spiegeltest. At the spiegeltest is a characteristic mark on the face of an animal, then the animal in front of a mirror. The idea is that if an animal is self-aware, it will try the feature for themselves to touch.
Until now, only a few animals managed for the spiegeltest, including some species of monkeys, dolphins and elephants. The scientists expect that Nico will soon be able to succeed for the spiegeltest. Self-awareness in robots is important as soon as robots are going to be used for cleaning and other household tasks, so that they do not cause accidents. It is also important that robots ‘understand’ that their own arm is not on the other side of the mirror.
