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AI/Robotics, Ethics

Robots to be taught how to feel pain

While we’re working to insulate ourselves from pain, we’re also working to make robots feel it. Makes for some interesting ethical scenarios about both human and machine pain.

An artificial nervous system aimed at teaching robots how to feel pain is being developed by German researchers.

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