The Power of Thought

This week’s tech news was off course Honda’s demonstration of its mind controlled robot. A man with a helmet imagining crude movements and the robot ASIMO executing them, not yet flawlessly so it seems, but close enough for this to represent a veritable technological breakthrough.

It has been a couple of years since the scientist Miguel Nicolelis astonished this blogger with his experiments in brain-machine-interfaces. Mr Nicolelis implanted electrodes in to an owl monkey’s brain, interpreted and digitalized the outgoing signals and lo and behold, the monkey learned to move a mechanic arm with his thoughts alone.

No longer was the monkey bound to his biological body. The implications of such a discovery are truly transformational.

What the Japanese have accomplished is so astounding, because it promises the same power Nicolelis gave his owl monkeys without the inconvenience of having a bunch of wires protruding from your skull.

What times we live in.

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