Robo-gladiator guided by operator's thoughts ready to rumble
Thursday, 8. October 2009, 08:58:20
There will be some new and nasty competition this year here at the 16th Robo-One robotic gladiatorial tournament: a warrior robot steered by its controller's neural signals.
The bipedal 'bot, which will see its first bouts when the combat tournament opens Saturday, is operated by Taku Ichikawa, a fourth year student at the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo. He controls the robot through a set of electrodes applied to his head that measure his neural activity, making it possible to control the 50-centimeter tall, 2 kilogram robot just by thinking.
"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.
The mechanical gladiator is capable of three types of movement: walking forward, rotating right, and using its single arm for stabbing attacks. The 12 electrodes attached to Ichikawa's head relay his commands via a wireless connection.
Source: http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/national/archive/news/2009/09/25/20090925p2a00m0na015000c.html
The bipedal 'bot, which will see its first bouts when the combat tournament opens Saturday, is operated by Taku Ichikawa, a fourth year student at the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo. He controls the robot through a set of electrodes applied to his head that measure his neural activity, making it possible to control the 50-centimeter tall, 2 kilogram robot just by thinking.
"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.
The mechanical gladiator is capable of three types of movement: walking forward, rotating right, and using its single arm for stabbing attacks. The 12 electrodes attached to Ichikawa's head relay his commands via a wireless connection.
Source: http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/national/archive/news/2009/09/25/20090925p2a00m0na015000c.html
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