the next step in robots

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=&storyid=2006-11-17T063546Z_01_N16287866_RTRUKOC_0_US-SCIENCE-ROBOT.xml&src=nl_usmorningdigest

Like "Intelligence", I think we're going to have to really closely re-examine exactly what we mean by "Consciousness" - or if they can accurately defined at all. While both words will go on forever in popular conversation, I wonder if the same will be true for the scientific community.