Scientists Develop Artificial Skin to Give Robots a Sense of Pain for Self-Preservation
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Technology for artificial skin that can sense potentially harmful forces could help robots detect and avoid damage, similar to human pain sensations.
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In humans, pain comes from signals sent by nociceptors that are interpreted by the brain to trigger self-preserving actions.
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The artificial skin system detects forces and interprets which stimuli could potentially cause harm to the robot.
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This could give robots a sense akin to pain that helps them detect and avoid hazards.
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The technology was developed by Jie Tan at Hunan University to imbue robots with a self-preservation sense like pain.