1. Introduction -- 2. Story of robots -- 3. Story of the human brain -- 4. Human consciousness and the mind -- 5. Professor Valentino Braitenberg's vehicles -- 6. Professor Rodney Brooks' robots -- 7. Artificial neural networks and machine evolution -- 8. Machine consciousness -- 9. New architecture of robot consciousness and the robot mind -- 10. Physical demonstration of successful mirror image cognition by a robot -- 11. Observations on self-awareness -- 12. Conclusions.