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Honda Develops Brain Interface For Robot Control

Posted by timothy on from the of-course-it's-already-tomorrow-in-japan dept.

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."

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  1. Next Leap by I3ooI3oo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Next Leap by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      I wouldn't be impressed if I were you, either. Obviously you are one of the great minds in human-computer interface work and have a list of accomplishments that dwarfs this minor stepping stone of an achievement.

      I pshaw in the general direction of Japan along with you, brother.

  2. I for one.... by furby076 · · Score: 4, Funny

    welcome our new bucket wearing overlords! All hail Lord Bucket!

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  3. Re:Video? by kheldan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Please, don't show us a video of how this is done, nobody wants to see where you insert the CAT5 cable.

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  4. Robot Control?! by Chris+Burke · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  5. Great!! by gijoel · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now I have to learn to think in Japanese as well as Russian.

  6. Re:Video? by geekoid · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is the internet..of Course someone want's to see that~

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  7. Re:Army of the Future by MikeRT · · Score: 3, Funny

    It doesn't all have to be destruction and chaos to be cool. :-)

    Yes, it does.