Linking sense of touch to facial movement inches robots toward ‘feeling’ pain
If robots can experience pain themselves, they might understand human pain better, too
![robot resembling a child's head](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/021420_ls_robot_feat.jpg?fit=1028%2C579&ssl=1)
Touch sensors help Affetto, a robot built to resemble a child’s head, detect a signal that would cause a human pain.
Osaka University