Scientists gave an off-the-shelf robot arm a 'self image' and watched it improve at tasks like picking things up. In a paper in Science Robotics, the researchers speculate that "this separation of self and task may have also been the evolutionary origin of self-awareness in humans.”

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Scientists gave an off-the-shelf robot arm a 'self image' and watched it improve at tasks like picking things up. In a paper in Science Robotics, the researchers speculate that "this separation of self and task may have also been the evolutionary origin of self-awareness in humans.”