Japanese Researchers Made a Robot Kid That Can Feel Pain

Mar. 8, 2020

In this ever changing world, robots are evolving at an insane pace. There’sMIT’s cheetah robot that can play footballand then there’s anAI robot that cleans and secures a house. Now, scientists from Japan have developed a robot-child that is capable of feeling pain.

Now, that same research team was able to develop an artificial skin that can detect touch senses. The “skin” uses necessary sensors thatcan distinguish between a gentle touch and a hard slap or punch. The team’s study and work were presented by Minoru Asada on 15th of February at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science held in Seattle.

The researchers attached this artificial skin to Afetto and voila! Now, they havea robot with an artificial pain nervous systemthat can produce facial expression. The robot-head of the kid can now 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 appropriate expressions.

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

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