Honda builts brain-to-robot interface for Asimo

TOKYO, Japan, March 31, 2009 - Honda Research Institute Japan Co., Ltd. (HRI-JP), a subsidiary of Honda R&D Co., Ltd., Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR) and Shimadzu Corporation have collaboratively developed the world’s first*1 Brain Machine Interface (BMI) technology that uses electroencephalography (EEG) and near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) along with newly developed information extraction technology to enable control of a robot by human thought alone.

[#1 posted by monopole , April 1, 2009 7:49 AM]

Can I has Angelic Layer? see at the 6 Min point.

[#2 posted by Anonymous , April 1, 2009 8:42 AM]

Oh good, now I can do my job from home.

[#3 posted by MarlboroTestMonkey7 , April 1, 2009 9:38 AM]

Haven't we learn anything from Evangelion? Wonderful but sad.

[#4 posted by Felix Mitchell , April 1, 2009 9:43 AM]

I've always had a dream of using one of these to own robot wars!

[#5 posted by Dillenger69 , April 1, 2009 10:07 AM]

Great Scott!

[#6 posted by RedShirt77 , April 1, 2009 11:41 AM]

It's all fun and games until we are living out the Metal Gear series.

[#7 posted by Anonymous , April 1, 2009 3:02 PM]

Honda builDs, not builts.

[#8 posted by bitman362 , April 1, 2009 4:15 PM]

What is "Builts" ?

[#9 posted by Anonymous , April 2, 2009 3:39 PM]

..aaand then Games Workshop sues them into the ground. Copycats.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/B000NI9TXI/ref=dp_image_text_0?ie=UTF8&n=165793011&s=toys-and-games

[#10 posted by iRoy , April 3, 2009 8:32 AM]

Oooh, we have tickets to one of the several 40 minute Asimo demos tomorrow and Sunday at the Edinburgh Science Festival.

Wonder if there's going to be a demo of the interface.

http://www.sciencefestival.co.uk/Events/Preview-events/Asimo