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Honda Robot Controlled By Brain Waves

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the my-cybernetic-army-thanks-you-in-advance dept.

Dotnaught writes "Honda researchers to have developed a way to control robots using human brain waves. Using brain signals read from a person in a magnetic resonance imaging scanner, a robotic hand mirrored the movement of the human controller, spreading its fingers and making a 'V' sign."

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  1. Ask and ye shall receive by spun · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here ya go.

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  2. hmmmm by venicebeach · · Score: 4, Informative

    I've done some fMRI of motor movements... All these movements, the fist, the V-sign, would activate the hand area, premotor cortex, and some parietal areas... I am very skeptical that you could tell the difference between them. But if they can that is very impressive, especially to do it in real time...

    By the way, MRI does not measure "brain waves". It measures blood oxygenation changes, which are related to the firing of neurons.