{"id":87179,"date":"2019-01-30T13:43:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T21:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/robot-that-thinks-for-itself-from-scratch-brings-forward-rise-the-self-aware-machines"},"modified":"2019-02-11T03:36:58","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T11:36:58","slug":"robot-that-thinks-for-itself-from-scratch-brings-forward-rise-the-self-aware-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/robot-that-thinks-for-itself-from-scratch-brings-forward-rise-the-self-aware-machines","title":{"rendered":"Robot that thinks for itself from scratch brings forward rise the self-aware machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/robot-that-thinks-for-itself-from-scratch-brings-forward-rise-the-self-aware-machines2.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The rise of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/2018\/11\/11\/dont-fear-rise-robots-already\/\">\u201cself-aware\u201d robots<\/a> has come a major step closer following the invention of a machine capable of thinking for itself from scratch, scientists have said.<\/p>\n<p>Engineers at Columbia University claim to have smashed one of the biggest barriers in the field of robotics after a mechanical arm, which had not been programmed with any instructions, began performing practical tasks after just a few hours.<\/p>\n<p>The team said this is the first time a robot has shown the ability to \u201cimagine itself\u201d, thereby working out what its purpose is and how to perform it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2019\/01\/30\/robot-thinks-scratch-brings-forward-rise-self-aware-machines2\/\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2019\/01\/30\/robot-thinks-scratch-brings-forward-rise-self-aware-machines2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2019\/01\/30\/robot-thinks-scratch-brings-forward-rise-self-aware-machines2\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2019\/01\/30\/robot-thinks-scratch-brings-forward-rise-self-aware-machines2\/\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rise of \u201cself-aware\u201d robots has come a major step closer following the invention of a machine capable of thinking for itself from scratch, scientists have said. Engineers at Columbia University claim to have smashed one of the biggest barriers in the field of robotics after a mechanical arm, which had not been programmed with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87630,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87179\/revisions\/87630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}