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What if robots, apart from being able to move like humans and talk like humans, could also feel like humans? That’s what researchers at Leibniz University in Hannover, Germany are trying to achieve. Johannes Kuehn and Sami Haddadin, two robotics experts at the university, have been working on ways to introduce pain into the mechanical mindset for years. In May, the pair presented their research at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).

Like many robotic engineers before them, Kuehn and Haddadin used the human form as inspiration to create a skin-like tissue for robots. The “nervous robotic tissue” acts in the same way human skin would: when there is damage, impulses are sent to the brain so that the source of the pain can be identified and alleviated. For a robot, damaged robotic tissue would alert the operator of a problem, which could save companies millions in the long run; fixing initial damage is much cheaper than replacing an entire robot.

“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,” wrote Haddadin and Kuehn in a paper on the new tissue model, which they presented at a conference in Sweden.

The pain reflex system developed by Haddadin and Kuehn can also help determine the severity of the damage, saving engineers valuable time. Just like a human can differentiate between a paper cut and a broken bone, industrial robots with this technology will know the difference between a problem that can wait until the end of a production day and one that needs immediate attention. This, too, will make for more efficient and cost-saving industrial machines.