Brain powered robots a reality?

Earlier this year a company called Emotiv showcased a headset that allowed gamers to control on-screen action with thoughts and emotions, all very clever indeed but the Russians have upped the ante with a brain controlled robot to do your bidding.

Moscow based scientists and neurologists have developed what is at the moment a fairly moody machine but does show the technology in working order where a thought can be translated into an action or movement.

The implications for such an awakening in this area, till now the stuff of science fiction, would be huge for sufferers of debilitating conditions such as spine injuries or strokes.

Using electronic pulses from different areas of the brain to translate into actions the neurobotocists reckon they can have technlogy in full working order, up and running to say drive a car in the next 18 months.

All very exciting and advanced, but the paranoid will be getting palputations soon enough.

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