Robo-gladiator guided by operator's thoughts

Description

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.

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