How to Control Robots While You Sleep

Fernando Orellana and Brendan Burns have developed a robot that acts out our thoughts while we sleep.  With a technique they have coined “Sleep Waking,” the brainwave activity and REM patterns are measured and transferred to a robot which acts out the dream in live action. Different parts of the dream are acted out differently based on changing brainwave patterns.  Don’t get too excited, it’s mostly measuring high activity and low activity and presuming certain emotions and actions based on those activity levels, but who knows how far the technology will eventually go as we are able to further map out the complexities of brainwaves and associate standard patterns of activity with known actions, thoughts, speech or behaviors.

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