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RESEARCHERS IN GERMANY are hoping the ability to feel pain will make robots smarter and help them avoid accidents.
The researchers, from Leibniz University of Hannover, are developing an “artificial robot nervous system to teach robots how to feel pain” and respond so they avoid damage.
The idea is that if robots are working alongside humans, such a system would help it react to problems. If one of its parts is damaged, it could use this knowledge to avoid further damage or accidents that could harm it or any people working alongside it.
“Why is is a good idea for robots to feel pain? The same reason why it’s a good idea for humans to feel pain. Pain is a system that protects us” one of the researchers, Johannes Kuehn, told IEEE Spectrum. “When we evade from the source of pain, it helps us not get hurt”.
The experiments involved a person tapping part of a robot, specifically a fingertip sensor that could detect pressure and temperature, and seeing how it reacted.
If the force applied to the robot exceeded a certain threshold, it would send repetitive signals to the robot, causing it to pull away.
The robot was able to tell the difference between light, moderate and repetitive taps and was based on the same way people feel tactile pain.
So the experiments involved actions like this:
As opposed to this:
Maybe going easy on them is for the best. We don’t want to push our luck.
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Lessons to be learnt >> we’re gonna do the same thing over and over and no one will be punished or even remotely held accountable.
@David Lawlor: It’s next time we will have to try harder to keep things hushed up. We have learnt a valuable lesson.
Lessons to be learned, should be fffg new motto.
Ah the aul “Lessons will be learned” spiel. Are they ever though?
Lessons to be learnt! We have been hearing that since the Blood Contaminarion/AIDS scandal.
Is there any big news today that will bury this?
@James Lyons: They are using this to bury all the other things he has being up to..
@James Lyons:
Joe Biden comes back to ireland ?
LOL
Has there been another crime committed inside the corridors of power? Goodness me, what a bunch of lads they are? The voters must be so proud of their accomplishments.
Well that’s a surprise
Definition of Insanity. Doing scandal over and over again.
Two weeks to flatten the curve!! So many gullible people out there. Still.
They are an absolute joke.
@Fergal McDonagh:
the cervical check victims aren’t laughing
Herr tony coming back into public focus around the time of the release of his book. Hmmm. What chapter does he apologise to the victims of the cervical check scandal?
Some just want and want more power , power and greed .. Jesus how he could keep the drive with his wife’s passing ! Pass it to a younger person now . He will already get a huge pension.
Can’t wait to see Lessons To Be Learned , the Musical .
Remember when he was being lionised here on these pages? Remember someone making a mural of him with a superman outfit? Remember him receiving the freedom of the city?
It was all disgraceful then and it still is.
SF made them do it.
in any other country, senior individuals would have been fired. and yet the spin continues, as expected from the featured parties, ‘lost opportunity’, etc, and all that sort of nonsense. #SomeNeck #PulledaFastOne
” Lessons To Be Learned ”
Aaahh sure that’s the perfect name for a Eurovision song that could get us back to winning ways.
@Thom Thumb:
When I was young, I had a dream
And though the dream was very small,
It wouldn`t leave me.
To be a beggar for a fee
To play the poet or the fool
And now you see me.
And now the miracle is mine
And fault and the war begun
And now there`s nothing left to hide,
Still I………
And now I`ve nothing left but time,
Still I reach out through this empty life
Monk not guilty
@Nicholas O’Halloran: lotta people running for the hills I’d say.
@Nicholas O’Halloran:
Look at Da
i bet the monk done Da
Donnelly is a muppet. A fully qualified spoofer. As for Holohan? The whiff of arrogance from him is stifling.
@Kenmark:
he might go for president
“Lessons to be learned” , that phrase is a way for those in power to politely tell the public to F off .
If I hear lessons to be learnt one more time from a FF or FG lackey, I will lose my 5h1t!!
@Stephen Mullins:
and if i hear “Move forward” from SF
@GERARD KENNELLY: You must get tired always being wrong and having to eat **** from shinner’s. That’s what you get for being wrong so change the tune
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