Robot that can 'imagine itself' and became self-aware is built by scientists

A robot able to'imagine' itself has been created in a step towards the self-aware robots envisioned in the Terminator movies. Skynet and other sci-fi machines are able to learn and decipher from scratch but real-world robots have yet to master this art. Now, scientists have managed to create a machine that can learn without prior programming via'deep learning'. After an initial 24 hours of behaving like a'babbling infant' it was able to grasp objects from specific locations and drop them with 100 per cent accuracy thanks to 35 hours of training. Even when relying entirely on its internal self model - the machine's'imagination' - the robot was able to complete the pick-and-place task with a 44 per cent success rate.