New research helps robots feel pain like humans

A team of scientists at Cornell University, USA recently announced, they have succeeded in recreating the body feeling for a robot. This means robots can also feel pain like humans.

The team at Cornell University in the United States does this by recreating an organic nervous system using optical fiber cables. In theory this is a very effective approach to humanoid robots. Meanwhile, the external sensors will connect to the connecting cable system and transmit the sensation to the computer processor.

According to Thenextweb, the team combined the DWS platform with the ML to create special sensors on the robot, enabling it to sense whether its body is affected by external forces or not.

Special sensors on the robot, make it possible to sense whether its body is affected by external forces or not.

But it must be understood that the Cornell University study is not intended to create a robot model capable of sensing pain. This work only opens up the opportunity to develop automated safety systems for robots, helping them know which actions are dangerous to themselves and stay away before everything is too late.

A few years ago, two researchers at the University of Lisbon, Portugal successfully developed a system to help robots feel the pain. However, this system does not really reproduce exactly the same pain feeling as humans suffer. Inspired by the state of human pain, they divided the pain feeling of the robot into 4 different levels from non-sensible, light, moderate and intense pain.

At that time, the two scientists focused on specifying pain on robots based on studies of pain in humans. Basically, the team wanted to find ways to teach robots about how to move in space without being stabbed in everything around, leading to self-harm.

The pain mechanism is inherently a way to warn the body. Without it, people will be at risk because they don't know how everything around will affect the body when they collide. However, in people, there is also the syndrome of pain sensory loss (CIP). Those who unfortunately suffer from this syndrome will be immune to all pain but also very dangerous because they do not know where the limit should stop.

Building pain feelings for robots like humans is still a huge challenge for the scientific team in the world. But if we know how to apply artificial intelligence and machine learning to simulate pain sensations, we can absolutely dream about robots that understand and empathize with human pain and know how to avoid them. Unfortunate accident.