Thread: Introspective Robots

This is quite creepy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehno85yI-sA

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Scienc...sp?NewsNum=823

The legged robot learned how to move forward based on only 16 brief self-directed interactions with its environment. These interactions were unrelated to the task of locomotion, driven only by the objective of disambiguating competing internal models. These findings may help develop more robust robotics, as well as shed light on the relation between curiosity and cognition in animals and humans...