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World Service,2 mins

Teaching a robot to feel pain

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If a robot could feel pain, should we feel sympathy? It's a relevant question because researchers in Germany are developing an "artificial robot nervous system" in robots. Professor Sami Haddadin of the Leibniz University of Hannover is behind this research (Photo: The Robotics event Innorobo in La Plaine Saint-Denis, France, 26 May 2016. Credit: ERIC PIERMONT/AFP/Getty Images)

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