paoloizzo

Sorry, this was actually my first post on reddit, I just got back from work, I'll answer as many as possible

At this stage of development it is not, however I am creating a very modular system that allows to easily expand it in future research

I did mechatronics as an undergraduate and Control System as a postgraduate. Although it doesn't look like it, at the level I do it there is a lot of math to deal with. Maybe that is what caught my attention in the first place, I love math and being able to apply it in such a cool field is really interesting for me.

if you are interested in actual design of robots, i would suggest something like mechatronics (that's what i did as an undergraduate). The reason is that it gives you a broad understanding of all the necessary components of a robot: mechanics, electronics, programming

As far as my imagination goes I cannot imagine a way that would be actually possible. The common idea is that to mimic the functioning of a human brain it's sufficient a very complex Turing machine. In my opinion that is not the case, there is something more going on in our brains that at the moment we fail to understand. If we would be able to build a machine that is self conscious with the technology we have today, it would require an amount of energy that is just not possible to produce on earth.