I'm glad this is helping paralyzed people, but I wonder about its other applications. What kind of machinery could it let people control with just their thoughts? How remote does the machine have to be from the user?
The speed of light delay from the Earth to the Moon is 1.3 seconds. Would a BCI like this ever effectively allow humans to remotely operate robots on the lunar surface from Earth? Maybe not, but perhaps from an orbiting lunar space station, light speed ceases to matter. Would building on the Moon be most practical if it were done by robots on the surface, thought-controlled by humans from orbiting space stations?
UCLA engineers have developed a wearable, noninvasive brain-computer interface that lets paralysed people control robotic limbs. Who else could use this tech?
byu/lughnasadh inFuturology
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With four mechanical limbs at my disposal not even that blasted Spider-man will be able to stop me. THE DIE IS CAST
Someone will turn this into a sex toy before it gets commercialized for disabled people
Building on the moon is almost certainly more likely to be done by AI powered robots with remote human supervisors than anything to do with BCI.
Sex or war are always the first frontiers for new tech.
Honestly yeah, moon construction via brain-controlled bots from orbit sounds way more efficient (and safer) than sending people down. plus astronauts wouldn’t need to physically suit up every time they need to “do stuff” on the surface.