Robots Helping Humans

Sharon Gaudin opins that robots will soon be our personal digital assistants . She quotes Defense researcher Pam Melroy, who is excited about the possibilities of bionic prostheses for wounded veterans:

The ability to control a robotic arm with just thoughts, with an RF signal and a chip in a woman's brain has already been demonstrated. It doesn't yet send signals back, but that will happen and it will close that loop. We are just not that far away from this ability to think things [and make a robot move]. It sounds like magic, but it's all about electrical brain signals.

-DD