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You may not immediately think of your skin as a sensory organ, but in fact it allows us to feel touch, pressure, and temperature. After all, the skin is heavily innervated by somatosensory nerves, which detect and transmit information about our body and its immediate environment. When sensing a harmful stimulus, the somatosensory sytem initiates an acute pain reaction as a warning signal that our body is being injured. When this pain becomes ...
Autonomous systems offer humankind tremendous opportunities, like freeing us from mundane tasks, carrying out risky procedures and generally giving us more time to enjoy the things we like doing. However, we lack trust in many forms of autonomous systems: partly this is human nature, but primarily because these systems, such as self-driving cars, have not demonstrated their safety credentials. Only by making these systems safer can we expect ...