Talk about incredible,
I just ran across this archive youtube link about the most recent developments Honda has made in advancing BMI technologies (Brain Machine Interface). Unless this is a complete hoax, it appears that Honda has succeeded in mapping a change in brainwave activity in certain areas of the cerebral cortex associated with differing movements of the body and are using these mapped changes to transmit commands to robots, allowing them to move without any input besides a mere thought.
The man who is the subject of the experiment has a helmet replete with sensors placed on his scalp. This helmet is connected to a sort of transmitting machine charged with interpreting this information and passing it along to the robot, which then moves.
Aside from trying hard not to laugh at the obvious attempts the people in the video are trying to make to not express any kind of proud or excited expression on their faces, my mind began to wander furiously, trying to envision things like what the next equivalent to a driver key would look like to whether we would actually need steering wheels and accellerator pedals on our cars anymore if this tech proved itself reliable enough.
Aside from trying hard not to laugh at the obvious attempts the people in the video are trying to make to not express any kind of proud or excited expression on their faces, my mind began to wander furiously, trying to envision things like what the next equivalent to a driver key would look like to whether we would actually need steering wheels and accellerator pedals on our cars anymore if this tech proved itself reliable enough.
In the end, its just another reason to believe that we will be seeing a large change in our interaction with transportation in the very near future...
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