Robot selfies, and the road to self-recognition

Abstract

People take selfies with smartphones and digital cameras (or even with flying robots), and share them on social media, blogs, microblogs and image platforms for social purposes, and though selfies may just be a trend, they say a lot about the narcissism of people and the zeitgeist of the media age.

But could selfies be used more productively? What does it mean for a robot to take a selfie? What good would that be? And is it even all that new?