{"id":136787,"date":"2022-03-13T14:05:16","date_gmt":"2022-03-13T21:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/training-robots-with-realistic-pain-expressions-can-reduce-doctors-risk-of-causing-pain-during-physical-exams"},"modified":"2022-03-13T14:05:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-13T21:05:16","slug":"training-robots-with-realistic-pain-expressions-can-reduce-doctors-risk-of-causing-pain-during-physical-exams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/training-robots-with-realistic-pain-expressions-can-reduce-doctors-risk-of-causing-pain-during-physical-exams","title":{"rendered":"Training robots with realistic pain expressions can reduce doctors\u2019 risk of causing pain during physical exams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/training-robots-with-realistic-pain-expressions-can-reduce-doctors-risk-of-causing-pain-during-physical-exams.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new approach to producing realistic expressions of pain on robotic patients could help to reduce error and bias during physical examination.<\/p>\n<p>A team led by researchers at Imperial College London has developed a way to generate more accurate expressions of pain on the face of medical training robots during <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/physical+examination\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">physical examination<\/a> of painful areas.<\/p>\n<p>Findings, published today in <i>Scientific Reports<\/i>, suggest this could help teach trainee doctors to use clues hidden in patient <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/facial+expressions\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">facial expressions<\/a> to minimize the force necessary for physical examinations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new approach to producing realistic expressions of pain on robotic patients could help to reduce error and bias during physical examination. A team led by researchers at Imperial College London has developed a way to generate more accurate expressions of pain on the face of medical training robots during physical examination of painful areas. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}