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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. Unfortunately... by GillBates0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...further trials resulted in the robotic hand trying to touch itself every other minute and repeatly making lewd gestures with it's middle finger.

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    An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
  2. like the monkey stuff from a few years ago by kaan · · Score: 5, Interesting

    About 3 years ago, some scientists hooked up a chimpanzee and captured brain signals to control a robotic arm. Their results were quite a bit more impressive I think, because the robotic arm had full motion control, and was physically located several hundred miles away from the chimp. But still, this stuff from Honda is cool, because it's controlled by humans using mri, not wires plugged into your brain like the monkey stuff. I just hope they don't try to put brain controller stuff in their vehicles...

    Here's an article from New Scientist:
    http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4262