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Controlling Robots with the Mind

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the clango-and-company dept.

loucura! writes "Scientific American has a fairly technical article on the real-time control of robotic limbs using recorded neuron patterns. The researcher's macaque has simultaneously controlled two robotic arms in addition to its own arm motion. The amazing thing? One of the arms was 600 miles away. So, they transmitted and translated the "commands" into motion in less than 300 milliseconds!" It's still a long ways off from helping the disabled or making a Dr. Octopus suit, but the potential uses are pretty cool.

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  1. Hmm... A little old by bpb213 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I read this on Robots.net 12 days ago.
    Little slow /.?

    (-1 /. critisizing)

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  2. i am your father by fredopalus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "He's more machine now than man. Twisted and evil."--Obi-Wan Kenobi

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    Jonahweb.com has stuff.
  3. SciAm PopSci by blair1q · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Last night, I was sitting on the sofa watching the game, and I glanced over and saw this headline on the front of the magazine, and something about wondercars, and another fluffy sensationalist barely scientific come-on.

    And I thought it was the latest issue of Popular Science, which it turned out was was right underneath this issue of Scientific American.

    Seriously. If you covered up the name, and don't have the UPC memorized, you couldn't hope to tell them apart. They used the same layout template for the covers. And maybe for their websites, because both covers are in about the same spot on their home page:

    exhibit A.
    exhibit B.

    Scientific American should never have started taking ads.

    --Blair

    More persistent-looking links to the cover thumbnails:
    sa
    ps