Report: New robot controlled by user’s brain

The newest robots like the way their controllers think.



Rather than relying on touch screens and artificial intelligence, a new “droid” is controlled by a user’s brain responses, according to ReCode.



According to researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intel-ligence Laboratory and Boston University, an EEG cap that can record a controller’s brain activity reads the user’s brain responses while watching a robot at work.



In the report, MIT’s lab director Daniela Rus said, “As you watch the ro-bot, all you have to do is mentally agree or disagree with what it is do-ing…the machine adapts to you, and not the other way around.”



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