Japanese Researchers Made a Robot Kid That Can Feel Pain

In this always changing globe, robots are evolving at an insane pace. There's MIT's cheetah robot that can play football game and then there's an AI robot that cleans and secures a house. Now, scientists from Japan have adult a robot-child that is capable of feeling pain.

Back in 2011, researchers from Osaka University created Afetto, a robot-caput of a child that could express itself by smiling, frowning and giving an array of facial expressions. The researchers could accomplish this by using a gentle fabric that covered the robot-head. This material enabled the robot-head to move using 116 distinguished points. Cheque out the video below.

Now, that same research team was able to develop an artificial skin that tin detect touch senses. The "peel" uses necessary sensors that can distinguish between a gentle touch on and a difficult slap or punch. The squad's study and piece of work were presented past Minoru Asada on 15th of February at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advocacy of Science held in Seattle.

The researchers fastened this artificial skin to Afetto and voila! Now, they have a robot with an bogus pain nervous organisation that can produce facial expression. The robot-head of the kid can at present sense a gentle pat on the head and a tight slap on the cheeks (not that I want to slap a kid) and give the advisable expressions.

Japan has been using robots to aid their old population past deploying robot nurses and companions in hospitals and old-age homes. Now, the primary aim of the researchers is to develop an empathetic robot companion for society and its citizens.