AI RESEARCH
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Can VLM Agents Tell Who They Are at All?
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2605.08816v1 Announce Type: new In the animal kingdom, mirror self-recognition is a canonical probe of higher-order cognition, emerging only in some species. We ask whether an analogous functional capability emerges in embodied vision-language model (VLM) agents: can they recognize themselves in a mirror? We