Kinda the SW droids droids being short for androids implies they have AI OS software an they kinda have to cuz: They are aware of their environment and can recognize individuals and objects in that environment They are androids ant they know that they are androids and they can tell each other apart so; They are both conscious and self aware With out onboard AI OS they would just be computers and non mobile objects only capable of performing simple functions. Take a robotic vacuum cleaner (real life) for example: it can move through the environment but not identify actual things inside that environment and it has no idea what itself actually is so; It is only semi conscious and not self aware at all. Vs 3p0 and r2d2: Those two can identify objects and individuals in their environment, they can tell each other apart as individuals and they both are aware of exactly what they are; So they are both conscious and self aware. Does that help?