QBo Robot Looks in the Mirror

This video corresponds to a small experiment in which the Corpora team put Qbo in front of the mirror to see if it could learn to recognize himself. They used the “Object Recognition” mode and the “Face Recognition” mode. Qbo, using its stereoscopic vision, selected its own image in the mirror and, with the help of one of the engineers, learned how to recognize himself. This quite simple experiment touches interesting psychological aspects of self-consciousness, whose complexity can be proved by the fact that only a handful of species can recognize themselves in front of a mirror. In this first version, a human guide presents Qbo to himself, but Corpora are working so the robot could sense and self-recognize himself autonomously when it is in front of a mirror.

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