"Oh, this is me. Nice."
So says Qbo, an adorable robot created by Thecorpora, as it recognizes itself in the mirror for the first time.
According to the company's Qbo blog, the "quite simple experiment touches interesting psychological aspects of self-consciousness." After all, only humans and a select number of animals are self-aware enough to recognize themselves in a mirror.
And, isn't self-awareness a major milestone of the Singularity? If Qbo weren't so cute, I'd be scared.