robots

Friday Movie Review

Do they suck or rock? Did you hate it or love it? Were you bored silly?
It’s open mind time.
Go ahead and laugh at me, but I’m in a bind. What do you do when two sets of people you love, different in every way, tell you that you’ll love/hate a movie when you see it, and you come out sort of understanding both perspectives.  Read more 

Thought controls robots: 3,2, 1 – Contact!

Wow. I can’t believe that we are here. This is huge. Wow. Dude - trippy.

Rajesh Rao, associate professor of computer science and engineering, and his students have demonstrated that an individual can "order" a robot to move to specific locations and pick up specific objects by generating the proper brain waves that reflect the individual's instructions. The results were presented last week at the Current Trends in Brain-Computer Interfacing meeting in Whistler, British Columbia.  Read more