Researchers create robot that shows PAIN to teach doctors

Humanoid, facially expressive robots have been designed by researchers to help medical professionals improve their diagnosing skills. While robotic patient simulators (RPS's) are already used to train doctors, their faces don't move and don't express emotions. So researchers created a robot with rubber skin that can move its facial features to express real human emotions. From left to right pain, anger and disgust. The research team, led by Dr Laurel Riek, an associate professor of computer science and engineering at UC San Diego, designed the robot to be able to express pain, disgust and anger.