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For the last few years, a group of British scientists, led by Professor Owen Holland of the University of Essex, has been engaged in an ambitious project to build a conscious robot. They officially finished in 2007 and yet, disappointingly, no conspicuously conscious form of machine life has emerged from their labs.It was vital, they felt, to have a robot with an internal model similar to our own, and this meant building a robot with a body like our own. So they built a human-sized and human-like robot (called CRONOS) made of artificial bones, tendons and muscles, and linked it to a detailed computer simulation of itself called SIMNOS.