Engineers have created a "conscious" robot.

He understands himself. The robot is like a baby who is studying his body, trying to understand the environment and himself in it. The robot creates a “mental” model of its body from scratch, without human help. The scientists placed a robotic arm around five video cameras. The robot looked at itself through the cameras, as if in a mirror. He began to wriggle and deform in order to understand exactly how his body moves in response to motor commands. Three hours later, the robot stopped. Its internal neural network has finished learning the connection between the robot's motor actions and the volume it occupies in the environment. The ability of robots to model themselves is an important skill. This not only saves labor, but also allows the robot to monitor its own wear and even detect and compensate for damage.