Scientists have recently managed to control a robot's movement by thought alone. A robot with video sensors was given visual cues (e.g. move forward/right/left) which were projected to person lying within an fMRI machine. The person then imagined carrying out these movements. The resultant brain areas that lit up on imaging were then mapped to movements in the robot. The team wishes to give people who have lost the use of their body the ability to experience life through one of these robot avatars. Of course, the applications of such technology are much broader. Scientists always mask this kind of transhumanist developments as being tools for the disabled when the intentions obviously span well beyond to the creation of cyborgian ubermensch.
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