Robots

ICub robot, a 'hybrid embodied cognitive system for a humanoid robot' about 1 metre (3.2 feet) high, makes a phone call during a demonstration at the INSERM institute in Bron, near Lyon, southeastern France, August 31, 2009. Six versions of ICub exist in laboratories across Europe, where scientists are painstakingly tweaking its electronic brain to make it capable of learning, just like a human child and hoping it will learn how to adapt its behaviour to changing circumstances, offering new insights into the development of human consciousness. Picture taken August 31, 2009.