New robot 'steered by human thought': Honda


TOKYO (AFP) — Japan's Honda said on Tuesday it had developed a robot steered by human thought, thanks to a helmet-like device that measures a person's brain activity and sends signals to the machine.

The latest version of ASIMO -- the celebrity robot of Honda Motor Co. that can already dance, run and guide guests through an office floor -- has now been fitted with a so-called "brain machine interface" (BMI), the company said.

The state-of-the-art technology means the humanoid can perform four basic movements with its arms, legs and tongue based on the non-verbal instructions a person sends to it by concentrating on performing the action themselves.

"By only imagining moving their right hand, for example, a test person can move ASIMO's right hand," said one of the scientists involved, Tatsuya Okabe of the Honda Research Institute Japan.

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i want to know about some about that technology from that i can take the pictures clearly. bcz i am a portrait artists . i like to capture the beautiful scenes from different sites.....

Oh boy, i hope they continue to develop this technology! It starts with little toy robots, next thing you know we will have mechs or something cool like that for construction and other manual tasks controlled by the users mind. I can see Stephen Hawking being first in line for something line this!

exciting stuff!

Surely using our minds to control robots to do our labour is just lazy? I mean, I can see the use for people with disabilities or even tasks that couldn't be done without this technology, but if this technology does become a widely available asset, then I predict that the future of humans would be rather short lived.