A new robot has been developed at Meiji University in Japan that can tell the difference between its own image in a mirror, and an identical robot mimicking it — an ability known as “mirror image cognition.”
Here’s another blurb:
Japanese researchers have recently developed a bot that is able to distinguish “itself” from “others” with a high degree of accuracy.
One could say that Japan is kicking America’s butt in robot research, but unfortunately, it’s worse than that. As the US is not even bothering to compete in this technological arena.
All your base are belong to us! Sorry, it was the first thing that came to mind. I’ll be thought provoking next post.
Really? From what I here Americans are the pioneers of artificial prostitutes.
These are lab toys. Hardware is decades away from semi-intelligence. It will probably take quantum or light processors for this, and an unbelievable about of fast memory by today standards. It’s very difficult for serial processes to mimic the net structure of biological brains, particularly self programming learning systems. That said I’ll place an order for a Stepford wife today, just in case I’m wrong.
I’m sure if the US was losing population, we’d be building lots of robots too.
Why do they not watch the Victoria’s Secret fashion show, and then dress the robot, eh?
http://www2.victoriassecret.com/fashionshow/
CMU built a Humvee that can drive itself. It doesn’t need a rear view mirror since it doesn’t need a driver. U.S. R&D is more focused (and funded) on the belief that everything has the capacity to be more lethal if connected to a computer. The Japanese robot can see itself in the mirror, but our robot makes the mirror a thing of the past. In the future you won’t need a mirror, you will just have a camera and screen. I wonder if Dracula will be able to see himself.