June 01, 2006
Controlling robots with your mind...
Wow. Researchers Make Robot Hand Controlled by Human ThoughtGranted, this is just a case of getting the robotic hand to play "Rock, paper, scissors", but nonetheless it represents an actual success for converting human brain waves to robotic movement. The use of fMRI to capture the processing that is going on in the brain and having a mapping of sorts between a certain pattern of activity and an actual concept represents a really cool development in this field. The real-world application of this will hopefully allow amputees and other patients with restricted or no use of limbs to control their prosthetic devices using the same nerve impulses that they normally would.
coool. yay cogntive science nerdyness!
Posted by lara at June 1, 2006 09:49 AM
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