Published on 05/26/2006
According to RobotGossip, the Honda Research Institute Japan displayed a video in the capital, demonstrating new mind control technology for robots. Movement of fingers on Asimo’s robotic hand is achieved via using MRI images of a brain. A person within the MRI machine can manipulate the robot's hands, from forming a fist to making a V-sign. This development could breathe new hope for paralyzed, but it will take many more years of research and hard work for a working prototype to be available for the masses. The scientists still cannot decipher how it happens in the brain, but at least comparing the snapshots in the brain leading to action is the closest thing we have to mind reading at the moment.