Honda Motor Co. has developed technology that uses brain signals to control a robot's moves, hoping to someday link a person's thoughts with machines in daily life.
In the future, the technology that the automaker researched with ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories may substitute for a keyboard or cell phone, or help people with spinal injuries move their limbs, researchers said Wednesday.
In a video demonstration in Tokyo, patterns of the changes in the brain taken by an MRI machine, like those used in hospitals, were relayed to a robotic hand.