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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Kosh on May 25, 2006, 05:57:14 pm

Title: Mind controlled robot
Post by: Kosh on May 25, 2006, 05:57:14 pm
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=2002824

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TOKYO May 25, 2006 (AP)— In a step toward linking a person's thoughts to machines, Japanese automaker Honda said it has developed a technology that uses brain signals to control a robot's very simple moves.

Pretty cool stuff.
Title: Re: Mind controlled robot
Post by: aldo_14 on May 26, 2006, 02:56:58 am
Ex-Ter-Minate!
Title: Re: Mind controlled robot
Post by: NGTM-1R on May 26, 2006, 03:08:52 am
First step towards workable power armor...
Title: Re: Mind controlled robot
Post by: Mefustae on May 26, 2006, 03:57:52 am
First step towards workable power armor...
I'd prefer working Automail.
Title: Re: Mind controlled robot
Post by: Colonol Dekker on May 26, 2006, 04:57:28 am
Humanity has worked out how to harness/interprate basic brainwaves, But we still cant get trains to arrive on time...... Go fig :ick:
Title: Re: Mind controlled robot
Post by: butter_pat_head on May 26, 2006, 12:17:37 pm
Just wait until said robots are shrunk to about 9" tall and come in clear plastic winged eggs filled with water... and then create a game where said robots fight each other in hth combat on a table called a... erm... platter?  And and the robots won't be called robots, they'l be called... mmm... seraphs?  I know, we'l call the game 'Seraphic Platter' and every schoolgirl in Japan will play it.  Yeh, thats it! ^_^
Title: Re: Mind controlled robot
Post by: aldo_14 on May 26, 2006, 12:29:08 pm
Drugs are bad, m'kay?
Title: Re: Mind controlled robot
Post by: Cobra on May 26, 2006, 01:35:11 pm
:rolleyes: give me a break. this sounds about as weak as that so-called "Invisibility Cloak" that supposedly "manipulates light" that scientists are working on.
Title: Re: Mind controlled robot
Post by: aldo_14 on May 26, 2006, 01:59:36 pm
:rolleyes: give me a break. this sounds about as weak as that so-called "Invisibility Cloak" that supposedly "manipulates light" that scientists are working on.

eh?  It's really a rather basic concept, you know.  Technically hard to implement, but the theory is pretty simple to understand.
Title: Re: Mind controlled robot
Post by: castor on May 26, 2006, 02:05:19 pm
Doh! And I thought this to be a political thread :P
Title: Re: Mind controlled robot
Post by: Cobra on May 26, 2006, 02:24:04 pm
:rolleyes: give me a break. this sounds about as weak as that so-called "Invisibility Cloak" that supposedly "manipulates light" that scientists are working on.

eh?  It's really a rather basic concept, you know.  Technically hard to implement, but the theory is pretty simple to understand.

the invisibility thing or the mind-controlled robot?
Title: Re: Mind controlled robot
Post by: aldo_14 on May 26, 2006, 03:43:44 pm
The robot.
Title: Re: Mind controlled robot
Post by: Turnsky on May 26, 2006, 08:29:00 pm
First step towards workable power armor...
I'd prefer working Automail.

working bionics, would be a much more wiser choice, since we don't know much about the inner workings of "automail"
Title: Re: Mind controlled robot
Post by: Charismatic on May 26, 2006, 11:21:33 pm
Sounds like a step twards Cylons... :nervous:
Title: Re: Mind controlled robot
Post by: redsniper on May 26, 2006, 11:29:55 pm
Well, bionics would basically be the same as automail. Just made with technology only and no alchemy.
Title: Re: Mind controlled robot
Post by: Rictor on May 26, 2006, 11:30:01 pm
So MechWarrior is how far away? Figures the Japanese would do something like this. You just know there's about 50 middle-aged Japanese scientist working around the clock in some underground lab to build themselves a Gundam. I can't say I blame them, they have to protect themselves from Godzilla somehow.
Title: Re: Mind controlled robot
Post by: Turnsky on May 26, 2006, 11:44:02 pm
So MechWarrior is how far away? Figures the Japanese would do something like this. You just know there's about 50 middle-aged Japanese scientist working around the clock in some underground lab to build themselves a Gundam. I can't say I blame them, they have to protect themselves from Godzilla somehow.

while the rest of us want our dancing citroen C4's :p
Title: Re: Mind controlled robot
Post by: Shadow0000 on May 27, 2006, 12:40:33 am
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So MechWarrior is how far away? Figures the Japanese would do something like this. You just know there's about 50 middle-aged Japanese scientist working around the clock in some underground lab to build themselves a Gundam. I can't say I blame them, they have to protect themselves from Godzilla somehow.

 :p Didn't Ultraman was developed for that purpose ?, Gundams are just for wars (or rarely for Arena Tournaments), profile photo (1966):

(http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c254/Shadow0000/180px-Ultraman.jpg)
Title: Re: Mind controlled robot
Post by: WMCoolmon on May 27, 2006, 02:57:47 am
Ex-Ter-Minate!

I actually get the reference! OMFG! I actually get the reference!!

Hooray for Dr.Who being played on Sci-Fi channel.
Title: Re: Mind controlled robot
Post by: butter_pat_head on May 27, 2006, 02:44:14 pm
Gundams aren't profitable.  True they are huge and 'OMGZ! IS A GUNDAM!' but I don't think there are enough emo high-schoolers or newtypes to buy them...

On the other hand, as I said before... Doll sized robots + mind controller + combat + Japanese schoolgirls = ¥€$!

(http://www.jcomcp.plus.com/al.jpg)
Title: Re: Mind controlled robot
Post by: Ghostavo on May 27, 2006, 02:51:42 pm
Someone's been watching too much Angelic Layer...
Title: Re: Mind controlled robot
Post by: NGTM-1R on May 27, 2006, 04:58:21 pm
So MechWarrior is how far away? Figures the Japanese would do something like this. You just know there's about 50 middle-aged Japanese scientist working around the clock in some underground lab to build themselves a Gundam. I can't say I blame them, they have to protect themselves from Godzilla somehow.

If you build me the reactor, the odds are pretty good I could make a working Stinger for you.
Title: Re: Mind controlled robot
Post by: Ferret on May 28, 2006, 05:21:47 am
:rolleyes: give me a break. this sounds about as weak as that so-called "Invisibility Cloak" that supposedly "manipulates light" that scientists are working on.
I thought it was just covered in tons of cameras and displayed what the camera was looking at on the opposite side of it.
Am I wrong? I thought it was a cool idea, pretty useless but cool.
Title: Re: Mind controlled robot
Post by: Ace on May 28, 2006, 07:55:36 am
That's adaptive camoflauge, there's now work on using materials to bend light in certain ways to act more like a Star Trek cloak.
Title: Re: Mind controlled robot
Post by: Prophet on May 28, 2006, 08:11:06 am
Yah, the camera thing was abandoned because there were a series of accidents at the local highschool showers. Electric equipment and moisture don't mix. :D
Title: Re: Mind controlled robot
Post by: Mefustae on May 28, 2006, 08:27:33 am
That's adaptive camoflauge, there's now work on using materials to bend light in certain ways to act more like a Star Trek cloak.
[Nerd]But we can't do that! Think of the treaty with the Romulans!![/Nerd]
Title: Re: Mind controlled robot
Post by: NGTM-1R on May 28, 2006, 11:01:25 pm
Well, since it technically isn't signed for another three centuries or so...
Title: Re: Mind controlled robot
Post by: aceofspades on May 28, 2006, 11:52:24 pm
 :lol: We'll ruin the Star Trek plot by achieving technological advances ahead of time. But then when ST era arrives, everything will happen differently, and ST won't be written that way, so we would never have seen it that way, so we wouldn't have done the same things. So...TIME PARADOOOOOOOX!
Title: Re: Mind controlled robot
Post by: Cobra on May 29, 2006, 01:25:50 pm
but Kirk needs to be born! :(