Try to hit the robot to ensure human safety in the future

A team of scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute of the German Forest Research Institute (IFF) are doing some experiments in which they let humans stand still for the robots.

Standing test for hit robot

The test is designed to accurately measure how painful a person can be hurt before serious injury occurs. After being hit by the robots, the volunteers will evaluate the pain level from 1-10 points. The team will stop when the pain scale is 5 points and put the volunteer on the ultrasound machine to check the level of injury.

Listening to the robots may seem painful, but in reality the scientists only use a robot arm to test it. The meaning of this test is to let the robot know when it comes into contact with human skin and stop immediately . "The best way to prevent this (human injury) is to avoid contact from the beginning." "If a robot touches a human, that contact must be very weak so that humans can be ready to work the next day, at the very least bruised, not injured."

Roland Behrens, research project manager is preparing to test and volunteer on the left. The trial took place at Fraunhofer Academy, Magdeburg, Germany.

You may think these thoughts are redundant, but in Germany alone, there were 158 human and robot accidents last year, the highest number since 2005. Even a 22-year-old man has been killed. At VW's factory when the robot pulled and pushed him onto a metal plate. Of course, countries like Germany and Japan will be quite different from the rest of the world because they use a lot of modern assembly lines so the robot ratio is much higher. Many industrial robots are currently manufactured by Kuka of Germany or by Fanuc of Japan.