Robots !

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by DarkFish

by chance I happen to have spoken an expert on this area about a month ago, and he was quite sceptic about these kind of things. According to him, (using the current experimental technologies) we are only able to measure very few brain responses (e.g. the so-called P300-response). Definitely not the signals used to control your hand.

So don't think of it as an artificial hand you control in exactly the same way as you would control your real hands.
It probably uses some kind of "thought code" instead, using those very few signals that are measurable. This would require extensive training before you could even wobble your little finger up and down.

A very good example of how such thing works:

it's not like you think "w" and a "w" appears on your screen. But rather you see the cursor automatically scroll through all the letters, and when it selects "w" you think "yeah that's the one!".

Your 'expert' friend may want to read this..

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/...in/?test=faces

[DarkFish]

Originally Posted by SteamWake

Your 'expert' friend may want to read this..

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/...in/?test=faces

well, even in that article they admit they (quote) "are not there yet".

According to the expert I'm talking about (an electrical engineer working on things like this), we shouldn't expect to see these things in the near future.
That said, in the far future we probably will be able to do such things. Just not now yet.

With nowadays technology, the best we can do is use some very generic, easy to detect brain signals. (these applications are completely brain-controlled, mind you. It's just not the brain-control anyone would expect)

[SteamWake]

I know I just thought he might be interested in the article is all

Here is a little something I think the porn industry will be all over !

Hong Kong scientists have developed a robotic hand that allows people talking over the web to experience the sensation of touching each other — even feeling the strength of a handshake.

Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...#ixzz0l5HOUdXl

[GoldenRivet]

Amazing stuff really.

especially the prosthetic applications.

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by SteamWake

OMG that is just plain freaky. The part where he kicks it and it regains its balance then it's walking on ice you would swear it was a living breathing creature.

I actually got a little mad there. Hey! Why are you kicking the poor thing!!!

[Dowly]

Big Dog is darn creepy.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Dowly

Big Dog is darn creepy.

Only to ferrets. If I had one I'd ride it everywhere.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Only to ferrets. If I had one I'd ride it everywhere.

Now that would be something else...watching you ride a dog.

Now where did I put that camera?

[Schroeder]

Originally Posted by Dowly

Big Dog is darn creepy.

I thought you like it creepy.

[d@rk51d3]

#4 looks like he's about to get one hell of an anal probe.

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by Schroeder

I thought you like it creepy.

Nuts.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Now that would be something else...watching you ride a dog.

Now where did I put that camera?

All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.

[TLAM Strike]

Now who is in charge in this relationship? Aren't the robots the ones that should be to helping with the heavy lifting and not the other way around? I have a feeling this is how Skynet begins.

*Beep* *Beep* "Move faster meatbag! Mush, Mush!!" >zap<

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

Now who is in charge in this relationship? Aren't the robots the ones that should be to helping with the heavy lifting and not the other way around? I have a feeling this is how Skynet begins.

*Beep* *Beep* "Move faster meatbag! Mush, Mush!!" >zap<

heh I can see it now.. she unpacks the thing sets it up and tells it to go dispose of a bomb... to which the robot shakes its 'head' "I aint gonna pick that up you do it!"