Highlights•Assessing pain in animals is problematic without a distinct definition.•We provide
clear criteria for animal pain that can be used to evaluate if pain occurs.•The empirical …

Highlights•Neural/behavioural indicators of emotional components of pain in insects are
unknown.•I review four lines of evidence for pain experience in insects.•Robots show more …

This paper discuss the phenomenon of empathy in social robotics and is divided into three
main parts. Initially, I analyse whether it is correct to use this concept to study and describe …

Neuro-robotics systems (NRSs) is the current state-of-the-art research with the strategic
alliance of neuroscience and robotics. It endows the next generation of robots with …

Objective: In recent years, the need for regulation of robots and Artificial Intelligence has
become apparent in Europe. European Union needs a standardized regulation that will …

Whether insects (Insecta) have the subjective experience of pain is difficult to answer.
Recent work in humans demonstrated that the experience of pain occurs due to the …

Pilot clinical trials of human patients implanted with devices that can chronically record and
stimulate ensembles of hundreds to thousands of individual neurons offer the possibility of …

Barron and Klein (1) define consciousness very narrowly, excluding most of the attributes
commonly associated with it (eg, self-awareness). By limiting the definition to a form of …

Convergent advances in neural modeling, neuroinformatics, neuromorphic engineering,
materials science, and computer science will soon enable the development and …

Arguments for fish sentience have difficulty with the philosophical zombie problem. Progress
in AI has shown that complex learning, pain behavior, and pain as a motivational drive can …