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Re: Robot Mirror Test - 2007/05/11 19:41
I've found a work by Takeno et al. where they claim that a robot can recognise itself in a mirror [1].
They define four steps:
1) The robot imitates the action of its own image reflected in a mirror.
2) The robot imitates an action taken intentionally by another robot as imitative behavior.
3) In an environment where the other robot is controlled completely via cables from the self-robot to imitate the behaviour.
4) The robot imitates the random actions of another robot.
The authors propose a evaluation method for discriminating the first step from the others.
Coming back again to the social dimension of self-awareness, it's clear that a requirement exists to recognise others' intentionality in order to be able to recognise yourself in a mirror. If the person (or robot) you see has no different intentions/behavior from yours, then it's you.
[1] Junichi Takeno, Keita Inaba, Tohru Suzuki. Experiments and examination of mirror image cognition using a small robot. Proceedings. 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, 2005. CIRA 2005.
Post edited by: Raúl, at: 2007/05/11 19:46
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