A robot controlled by "telepathy" - or it looks like it
I found out through this article on ROBOT WATCH about a small company in Hiroshima Prefecture called Oisaka Development Ltd. The article is a report from the exhibition floor at the recently-held Robotics Society of Japan's annual conference, but this company has developed a high-precision electromyograph.
Scroll down the article and toward the end you'll find a video right next to this photo and click the blue letters that says [動画3]. You'll see a video of a humanoid that is being manipulated by a man. The man is wearing a high-precision EMG sensor and is sending motion commands wirelessly to the robot. It looks a bit like controlling the robot with telepathy, doesn't it?
I wonder if Oisaka's Personal-EMG system is being used in exoskeletons such as HAL.........
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