Mind-Controlled Robot Avatars Inch Towards Reality

November 14th, 2012

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Via: Gizmag:

Researchers at the CNRS-AIST Joint Robotics Laboratory (a collaboration between France’s Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology) are developing software that allows a person to drive a robot with their thoughts alone. The technology could one day give a paralyzed patient greater autonomy through a robotic agent or avatar.

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2 Responses to “Mind-Controlled Robot Avatars Inch Towards Reality”

  1. anothernut says:
    November 14, 2012 at 2:40 pm

    I love how stuff like this is invariably justified by it’s future use to help some poor suffering souls, rarely by its (obvious) military potential.

  2. Mike Gogulski says:
    November 16, 2012 at 6:44 am

    In Soviet Russia, mind-controlled robot drive you!

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