Researchers Are Now Teaching Robots to Feel and React to Pain
When it comes to robot and AI technology, scientists and researchers as doing things that the movies have warned us not to do. First we have researchers pushing and kicking robots. It looks like they are abusing the damn things in a video that you can watch here.
Now a group of German researchers are experimenting with an “artificial robot nervous system” that will teach robots how to feel pain and then react to it. Really?! You’re going to inflict pain on a robot, and then you want it to react?! Are these people crazy!? This is the main ingredient to a freakin’ robot uprising. That’s obviously not how they see it, though. Researcher Johannes Kuehn told Spectrum IEEE explains:
“Pain is a system that protects us. When we evade from the source of pain, it helps us not get hurt.”
So they believe that robots can use these sensations as a way of protection. They also see it as a system that can help protect humans when more robots start working alongside them. They want to make sure a system is in place that may be able to prevent accidents. Haddadin and Kuehn wrote in a paper that was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in Stockholm, and it says:
“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.”
You can watch a video below of a robotic arm that has a BioTac tactile fingertip sensor. This can sense changes in both pressure and temperature. What you’ll see in the video is test of it reacting to different levels of sensations and pain.
I don’t care what their intentions are, this isn’t going to end well for the human race. The Terminator is on its way to becoming a reality.
Via: Gizmodo