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HONDA develops robot ’steered by human thought’

Posted on April 1st, 2009 by Michael


Honda Reseach Institute president Yasuhisa Arai (L) and Mitsuo Kawato, Japan’s ATR computational Neuroscience Laboratories director, stand next to a brain-machine interface, equipped with special headgear to measure slight electrical current and blood flow change occuring in the brain, at Japanese auto giant Honda’s headquarters in Tokyo.

Japan’s Honda said 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.

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2 Responses to “HONDA develops robot ’steered by human thought’”


  1. karl Says:

    this project has been running for 20 more years. human thoughts can not be duplicated or replaced. it only can be called smart machine.

  2. Fiona Kempton Says:

    well this is all well and good but PRIORITIES please boys!