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Honda Develops Brain Interface For Robot Control
narramissic writes "Honda has released a video of experiments showing a person wearing a large hemispheric scanner on his head and controlling Honda's Asimo robot by visualizing movement. Back in 2006, Honda and ATR researchers managed to get a robotic hand to move by analyzing brain activity using a large MRI scanner. This latest work uses EEG to measure the electrical activity in a person's brain and blood flow within the brain using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) to produce data that is then interpreted into control information. While both the EEG and NIRS techniques are established, the analyzing process for the data is new. Honda said the system uses statistical processing of the complex information to distinguish brain activities with high precision without any physical motion."
While controlling something (robot/UAV) will get easier and easier. The problem I see is getting the Input side working for total control. Combining the technology that is being developed to help the blind and deaf for something like this would be the next great leap.
welcome our new bucket wearing overlords! All hail Lord Bucket!
I do not support "The Man". I also do not support your irrational stupidity
The book Starship Troopers by Henlein had people wearing huge armored suits equipped with nukes, lasers, etc. Perhaps we can just have robot armies controlled by humans mentally.
Or maybe robot miners. And robot deep sea divers. And robot firemen. It doesn't all have to be destruction and chaos to be cool. :-)
Please, don't show us a video of how this is done, nobody wants to see where you insert the CAT5 cable.
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
I wonder what would happen if the subject felt the urge of punching someone, among other things.
This could lead to very strange situations.
The good, the evil and the vacuum tubes.
Why on earth would these gal-danged scientists create a brain interface for robot control?! The fools have already ensured that the robots will take over our society and force us into slavery. Do they have to make it so easy for them that the robots can just control us directly via our brains?! Are they trying to destroy mankind? These scientists have gone mad!
What's that? Oh... never mind.
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Clearly, this is why the zombies want our brains. They must have already built the robots.
Now I have to learn to think in Japanese as well as Russian.
This is the internet..of Course someone want's to see that~
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DRM in your brain. If you get a song stuck in your head you didn't pay royalties for... Not to mention the political implications of this, no more need for torture when you have a Romulan brain probe that can download the information you want out of the person's brain. Or how such technology could be used by a dictator to control the population by punishing unloyal thoughts.
Sounds messy...