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Monday December 18, 2006 2:43 pm
This Bot Reads Minds
This new bot can be controlled by thoughts alone. Rajesh Rao, the University of Washington researcher who heads the project, claims that brainwaves make it perform with 94% accuracy. An electrode cap is placed on a human who watches its movements on a monitor through two cameras installed on and above the robot. When the bot “sees” the object that the human brain wants to be picked up, it receives the information and does as it is mentally instructed. The bot can also move the object to another location. Check out its performance and hope that it is going to be a while before Little Brother is available to the public.
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