Bodies Inert, They Moved a Robot With Their Minds – NYTimes.com

Now THIS is an important, ring the bells story:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/17/science/bodies-inert-they-moved-a-robot-with-their-minds.html?hp

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I don’t know, SK. Think about all the thoughts we have that might entail hand and arm movements that, out of social necessity, are best kept inside of our heads. Will the robotics differentiate between the thoughts we want to act upon, and all our other thoughts? With any luck the answer is yes, but better keep that arm in the lab for additional observation until we’re sure. I suggest that researchers might want to say something unbelievably rude to the woman who’s been testing it, and see how the arm reacts.

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