Posted on 05/27/2016 9:56:19 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Researchers in Germany are currently creating a "nervous system" that would mimic a pain response in robots, allowing them to quickly react and avoid harmful situations.
"Pain is a system that protects us, researcher Johannes Kuehn told a conference of engineers last week. When we evade from the source of pain, it helps us not get hurt.
The researchers programmed their robot to experience a "hierarchy" of pain through a variety of different stimuli, such as blunt force or heat. Depending on the threat, such as a harsh movement or intense heat, the robot is programmed to retract to the danger. The more dangerous it registers the threat to be, the faster the robot will retract and the longer it will avoid the hazardous force.
"A robot needs to be able to detect and classify unforeseen physical states and disturbances, rate the potential damage they may cause to it, and initiate appropriate countermeasures, i.e., reflexes," the research paper states.
Kuehn said a built-in pain response could protect robots potentially operating heavy machinery or other tools in factories from potential harm, thus saving companies from the fallout of damages. It also means a better safety environment for human workers, who often work side-by-side with robots on the factory floor.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Not silly. Programming. Even within their own audience. Sure they could call it “learning algorithm for the detection of and future avoidance of possible damaging behavior”, but why bother with all that when everybody knows and understands what pain is and how you could use an analog of that to teach the robot.
Q. Why would scientists want robots to feel pain?
A. Sick answer: Makes for a better sexbot.
Positronic brain.
If researchers want the robots to feel real pain
make them read the WaPo editorial page.
Or worse, make them read the pinkos who post in the WaPo comments sections.
A robot can’t feel pain. Simulated pain is not pain.
Simulated emotions are not emotions.
Simulated emotions are not emotions.....Oh, come now. I do that every night with my girlfriend. Before I roll over and snore.
More like react to pain. Only living beings can feel.
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