Apr 1 2009Great: Controlling Robots With Your Mind
The Honda Research Institute Japan, along with ATR and Shimadzu Corporation (all of whom can expect threatening letters from yours truly) has developed a system that makes it possible to control robots with your thoughts alone. Wow, this doesn't sound scary at all.
The technology uses electroencephalography (EEG) and near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) to allow a human to control a robot, in this case the Honda ASIMO, using mere thought. The technology offers up to 90 percent control accuracy without the use of physical implants, a huge milestone in human-to-robot interface that the research group hopes will yield new advances in robotics and artificial intelligence.
What could possibly go wrong? Besides everything. And by everything I mean the destruction of the entire human race. And also, this LEGO castle I'm building. But I put so much time into it!
Hit the jump for a video explaining the technology.
Honda research group unveils non-invasive human-to-robot interface [dvice]
Thanks to Steve, Spoonman, Joemo, Cocktus and Julian, who know the only robot you want to control with your thoughts is a Love-bot. Am I right guys? Haha, that was a test. You all failed, now get out.
Reader Comments
1. Ale - April 1, 2009 10:01 AM
first =P i suppose 0.0 i guess.. whatever -.-'
2. Timbo - April 1, 2009 10:05 AM
It's all fun and games until they controll YOUR mind!
3. LSDiesel - April 1, 2009 10:08 AM
Good Morning Geekologie.
Nothing like starting off the day with a little PEW PEW PEW and some coffee.
In Soviet Russia, robot controls YOU!
4. Amaranth - April 1, 2009 10:08 AM
Ghost in the Shell FTW!!!
5. ale - April 1, 2009 10:13 AM
they all already control our minds... is just they dont let us know...we're actually sleeping in a cell..swimming in some liquid while machines have created a fake world for us and the survivors escape to and underground city and....u all know the rest =P
6. Madgame - April 1, 2009 10:25 AM
I can't even control my penis with my mind let alone a robot.
April fools bitches...I really can control my penis
7. Robbimus Prime - April 1, 2009 10:28 AM
Sweet crocs on the pilot/puppet. I'm counting down the days till I see a honda asimo with a gatling gun mounted under its forearm. And crocs.
8. Cyberdyne Systems - April 1, 2009 10:28 AM
My first instruction to the robot: Kill Flanders.
9. Badcopnodonut - April 1, 2009 10:30 AM
FAAAAAAAKE!
the robot's feet are not reflected in the chrome base of the hairdryer thing. Nice try, GW!
10. asher - April 1, 2009 10:32 AM
if you control it it is NOT A ROBOT. robots are autonomous. if you control it it's a machine or a toy.
11. naas - April 1, 2009 10:35 AM
Spaceballs!?! Oh shit, there goes the planet
12. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - April 1, 2009 10:36 AM
@3
Did you find a new place to live?
13. naas - April 1, 2009 10:40 AM
Yeah, what's the haps deez?
14. photoshop-police - April 1, 2009 10:42 AM
do they have april fool's day in japan?
15. the black penny - April 1, 2009 10:46 AM
wha happens when u sleep?
cat turned into salad
house painted inside out
an the wife(many options to this one)
?
this is an april fools(would be nice)
ever read the comic with doc doom dreaming?
16. Void - April 1, 2009 10:47 AM
Yes, the GW loves dinosaur sex and fears the robot apocalypse, we get it already.... This new writer is getting as notorious as Daisy for beating a dead horse.
17. nfo - April 1, 2009 10:49 AM
I'd love to control a RawButt with my mind...
18. Atreids - April 1, 2009 10:58 AM
It's pointless activities like these that frustrate me most about robotics. Instead of focusing on problems integral to most robots' functionality and utility, such as their ability to navigate terrain, identify objects and people, and behave in a manner appropriate to their environment - you know, the features that actually matter - engineers instead decide to invest their energies and resources into pointless activities such as this. We are so far and away from controlling anything, let alone a complicated robot, with our minds, the futility of the exercise astounds and distresses me.
19. Moo - April 1, 2009 10:58 AM
I would like to control Anna Faris with my mind,
Thank you.
20. catch22 - April 1, 2009 11:00 AM
just wait... itll become sentinent, and download itself into your mind.... kinda like in universal soldier:the return
21. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - April 1, 2009 11:16 AM
Can they make a girly toy with this function? I'm lazy and want my hands both free...
22. Darth - April 1, 2009 11:49 AM
Nice helmet!
23. Gando - April 1, 2009 11:53 AM
That ASIMO robot looks more an astronaut to me!
24. Galtacticus - April 1, 2009 11:55 AM
While he's controlling the robot he should work-out at the same time!
25. vitruvianApe - April 1, 2009 12:40 PM
The guy can control a robot with his brain, but his brain can't be trusted to know that crocs are the worst form of shoe ever invented
26. Daisy - April 1, 2009 12:45 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie NEver BAck Down where Max was being teasted by Dr. Egon Spengler, and explained about Gozer the Traveler. How he will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldrini, the traveler came as a large and moving Torg! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the McKetrick supplicants, they chose a new form for him: that of a giant Slor! Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you!
27. Dan - April 1, 2009 1:05 PM
ROBOTS ARE STILL EVIL
And eurgh even japenese people wear crocs >.<
28. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - April 1, 2009 3:35 PM
@21
I believe I have the perfect product for your needs. Now introducing ...................... Wait for it ............ Hold on this sometimes takes a minute ................. ME! TA DA! Wait! Where are you going? Please don't call the cops. WAIT!
29. whatever - April 1, 2009 3:56 PM
is it me, or has daisy writen more than 1billion hours of the movie never back down
30. Alex - April 2, 2009 3:14 AM
I love that these companies are doing their best to bring about armageddon.
31. fulllovegirl - April 2, 2009 4:07 AM
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32. They Are Coming For Us! - April 2, 2009 4:54 PM
Wait, I've heard conflicting stories. Is this real or fake? For God's sake, tell me! I don't have nearly enough ammunition stocked in my specially designed robot armageddon panic room!