Self-awareness is not black and white. There are grey areas. For example, some animals are considered self-aware but on a much lower level than humans. Tune in as Hod Lipson of Singularity University discusses how these lower levels of awareness are being realized in robotics today and what that means for the future of thinking robots. Here’s a sampling of what you’ll discover: * The key to self-awareness and how it relates to A.I. today * How a blind spider-bot figured out it had four legs without a program to tell it so * Why human-level consciousness in robots is just the beginning *If you like what you’re hearing on “Almost Here: Round-the-Corner Future Technology,” please subscribe and donate bitcoins to keep us going.