1 Name: Dstar89 : 2012-11-14 19:02 ID:XsUn1fP7 (Image: 525x390 png, 288 kb) [Del]
I read this on popsci and thought it seemed legit for the Dollar's Tech Board. So, Let's begin the report.
Researchers in Japan are using a brain-machine interface to control the actions of a humanoid robot. The goal is to allow people “to feel embodied in the body of a humanoid robot,” in the words of one researcher.
Roboticists at the CRNS-AIST Joint Robotics Laboratory, a collaboration between the French National Center for Scientific Research and the Japanese Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, are trying to interpret brain waves into actions that can be understood by a robot. In the video below, a volunteer wears an electrode cap and watches a screen with flashing dots, which is used to teach his brain to associate flickering objects with actions. By focusing his attention, he can induce actions, which are translated from his brain activity into robotic motion.
A signal processing unit on a computer translates his brain activity and classifies it into a series of tasks. Then the team can instruct the robot on which task to perform. It could help paraplegics who can’t perform certain tasks on their own. Or it could be used for crazyfuture tourism, says Abderrahmane Kheddar, director of the JRL: “A paraplegic patient in Rome would be able to pilot a humanoid robot for sightseeing in Japan.”
This actually seems pretty cool. It really shows what us as Humans are capable of producing in this world. Just so magnificent! What do you think?
(Link to video: http://youtu.be/QOsUw9dRgIA)
Src: popsci
2 Name: Raikura : 2012-11-15 08:21 ID:36iVoe6x [Del]
SUGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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THATS SO COOL! JAPAN GETS EVERYTHING
3 Name: Xros : 2012-11-19 11:38 ID:6XxCBNqi [Del]
Yea, I remember seeing this in a segment of "Mind Blown" from Vsause2 on Youtube. We're just one step closer to becoming one with machine.
4 Name: Detective : 2012-11-21 10:35 ID:+FEDRCYK [Del]
wow is this real or fake?
5 Name: Dstar89 : 2012-12-02 14:52 ID:XsUn1fP7 [Del]
Well, according to article, it is real.
6 Name: Sid : 2012-12-04 23:53 ID:dn2ddvIW [Del]
It makes sense of how it is real, since there are prosthetics that detect nerve impulses and move based on those impulses. So why not go straight to the source, the brain. Of course it will be glitchy as hell, but it's a start right?
7 Name: SakuraHoshiko : 2012-12-05 11:04 ID:TBC6LwEJ [Del]
This is amazing! I hope this advances and becomes something useful to many people. I know many countries try to do this study but never have funding for it.
Imagine if people could fight with robots like in Angelic Layer!
(Sorry if that was random)
