During the impending robopocalypse, humanity will have to ward off freakishly agile androids, robotic dogs, whatever the hell this is, and, as new research from MIT suggests, quasi-autonomous, mobile robot-plant hybrids.
These days, it’s no surprise to hear about primates controlling a robotic arm with their brains – even paralysed humans have done it. But how would a brain need to adapt if one of the limbs was missing?
Researchers in the Netherlands have successfully tested a brain implant that allows a patient with late-stage Lou Gehrig’s disease to spell messages at the rate of two letters per minute.