Comments on: The Real Scoop on Honda’s Brain Controlled Asimo Robot

By: Honda’s ASIMO Turns 9, Celebrates With Cardboard Cake | Singularity Hub

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:37:16 +0000

[...] at the Hub over the years. We’ve seen the bot walk through difficult terrain, endure an early brain control system, and even fall down the stairs. The next nine years are likely to be even more eventful for ASIMO [...]

By: Brain Controlled Robot Follows Mental Commands (Video) | Singularity Hub

Brain Controlled Robot Follows Mental Commands (Video) | Singularity Hub — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:40:26 +0000

[...] or cars… the difficulty really comes from the mind-reading, not the automation. While ASIMO’s venture into brain-control had users make direct commands (lift left arm, stick out tongue, etc), and Braingate directly [...]

By: Security Checks Reaching Towards Your Brain | Singularity Hub

Security Checks Reaching Towards Your Brain | Singularity Hub — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:09:53 +0000

[...] the forefront of brain scanning news. From fMRIs being used as lie detectors and mind readers, to robots being controlled by thoughts, we’ve seen a lot of new tech that could be adapted to provide biometric data. Each method [...]

By: Willow Garage: The Personal Robot Will Be Open Source | Singularity Hub

Willow Garage: The Personal Robot Will Be Open Source | Singularity Hub — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:57:00 +0000

[...] are great, but they’re on par with other groups Singularity Hub has discussed, like CSAIL and Honda. It’s still too early to tell if Willow Garage’s open approach to robotics is the wave [...]

By: Swarm Robotics: The Swarm Is Coming | Singularity Hub

Swarm Robotics: The Swarm Is Coming | Singularity Hub — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:46:40 +0000

[...] Swarm robots are in vogue now. Yeah, it was cool when one robot did something neat, like Asimo or the RiSE wall crawler, but why have one big expensive robot when a million little ones will do [...]

By: Swarm Robotics: Beware The Swarm | Singularity Hub

Swarm Robotics: Beware The Swarm | Singularity Hub — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:06:43 +0000

[...] robots are in vogue now. Yeah, it was cool when one robot did something neat, like Asimo or the RiSE wall crawler, but why have one big expensive robot when a million little ones will do [...]

By: The Flying Microbot: Batteries Not Included | Singularity Hub

The Flying Microbot: Batteries Not Included | Singularity Hub — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:22:19 +0000

[...] that are complex enough to take care of living things, and robots that are advanced enough to respond to thoughts. Those wacky Canadians at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, however, have decided to explore [...]

By: Keith Kleiner

Keith Kleiner — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 16:26:11 +0000

Ha ha Felix! Good answer. I am all for consumer products too.

By: syed husain

syed husain — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 09:17:20 +0000

Whichever company comes out with the first set of BCI prosthetics stands to make a fortune. The science behind the technology is not completely clear to me, but it is all very fascinating stuff.

By: Felix H. Cat

Felix H. Cat — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 08:18:19 +0000

Now I don’t want to seem insensitive but when you say,

“We say forget the trunk! How about allowing a paralyzed person to walk again once we can extract their thoughts and re-route them to a pair of robotic legs. Now that is what we’re talking about!”

my thoughts are this…

There are already a slew of companies working on BCI(BMI?) prosthetics. I’ve seen a lot of demos AND working products! Honda is a consumer company and they want to make high quality, BCI consumer products to automate processes that one might encounter in everyday life. I’d say the return on investment will be substantially higher for Honda and there will plenty of companies involved with both.

I say, respectfully, bring on the consumer goods!

By: Peter Stolmar

Peter Stolmar — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 06:31:23 +0000

This is pretty insane… There’s a video of the mind control here:

http://www.zygbotics.com/2009/03/31/japanese-robot-controlled-by-human-brain-signals/