Robot self

Robot self describes the capacity of a robot to sense, perceive, and conceive of itself as a distinct and integrated entity, localized in space, enduring in time, and capable of initiating and controlling autonomous action. The notion of a robot self is often modeled on psychological theories of the human self that have distinguished different aspects of self – situated, agential, spatiotemporal, interpersonal, and conceptual and have differentiated between the notion of a core, or minimal, self that is bounded, situated, and acts to maintain itself and an extended self, the latter having awareness of itself as an entity with a past and a future and of social others as also being selves.