Time to brush off your requisite “robot overlord” jokes. The Mainichi Daily News reports about the work of Taku Ichikawa of the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo who has developed a ‘Robo-gladiator’ operated by his thoughts.
Building on previous work that developed a wheelchair operable by thoughts, Ichikawa’s 50-centimeter robot is capable of walking, turning right, and stabbing things. Says the excited fourth-year student:
“As this is the first neural signal-controlled combat robot, I hope a lot of people will get to know about it,” said an excited Ichikawa.
Link via Neatorama via Popular Science
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