Researchers Want Robots To Feel Pain In Saddest Experiment Ever

German researchers are experimenting with an "artificial robot nervous system" to teach robots how to feel and react to pain, in what might be one of the saddest displays of robot bullying since Boston Dynamics' Atlas was pushed by a hockey stick. It may seem counter-intuitive at first, but we build robots to go into dangerous situations for us. Pain is a way to protect ourselves, so wouldn't it be beneficial to have something that doesn't have those limitations? Researchers from Leibniz University of Hannover believe that robots can also use these sensations as a form of protection. "Pain is a system that protects us," researcher Johannes Kuehn told Spectrum IEEE.