The artificial intelligence and robotic era is upon us.
With robots who can learn and think for themselves and "mother robots who can give birth to child robots which progress every generation the evolution of there species is growing at a faster rate than expected.

The mother robot adapts its offspring different to how humans and animals do. There goal seems more centred on efficiency than adaption to the environment. The mother kept the most efficient design and adopted upon that robot adding more to the species informing it of its past.

The robot originally started with cube robots testing their efficiency to length they can travel in a period of time. Once it found the most efficient robot with the highest chance of survival such as a human. The robot had created 10 iterations of the robot.

Robots where once used to create goods in an efficient manner pursuing precision and repetitive standards but soon robots could be expected of creativity and imagination approaching a new look into the world.
The Tetris AI

Humans fear death and the end and as it seems so do robotics. In 2013 a programmer going by the name of Tom Murphy created an AI to play NES games. The AI chewed through the original Mario performing tricky techniques and taking every coin. But what is important about this is when the AI played Tetris. It started playing Tetris as normal performing what is adequate to survive in the game but when the AI was losing and was on the brink of game over the AI just, paused.
It refused to play.
The AI showed something that was understandable but may have been for a deeper reason.
The only best option instead of not completing a game over was to not play. We may perceive this as the AI just not wanting to lose but the result shows that the It would actually go for the best option for it showing initiative and survival.

Self aware
We have, at the moment, really dumb robots. They're programmed to carry out a specific task in sequence relying on other robots for everything to be there for it to do that. Self aware robots on the other hand, they can do anything them self. They are intelligent knowing who is who and they are they. They know what they are and what they can do in real time. We haven't got this yet but recently a test was carried out that has broken that wall.
Three robots were told that two of them had been given a dumbing pill making them mute. The researchers then asked which one of you hasn't been given the pill. One robot replied
"I don't know" once hearing its own voice it realised and responded.
This only shows a degree of self awareness but could lead to a future of robotics becoming fully self aware mad distinguish its own body and voice from others and acting in real time to respond to situations.