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"A thought controlled robot (aka brain controlled robot) has been revealed by researchers at the Neural Systems Lab at the University of Washington.  By wearing a special hat with 32 scalp electrodes, a human can move the robot and make it pick up objects by simply thinking.  One of the U of W researchers, Rajesh Rao, suggested, &amp;quot;One day we might be able to use semi-autonomous robots for helping disabled people.&amp;quot; Thought controlled devices aren&amp;#039;t new to Trend Hunter.   Earlier in the year, we found &amp;lt;b&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/thought-controlled-games-brain-to-computer-interface&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Thought Controlled Video Games&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; and a &amp;lt;b&amp;gt;&amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/thought-controlled-bionic-arm-breakthrough&amp;quot; title=&amp;quot;Thought Controlled Bionic Arm&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Thought Controlled Bionic Arm&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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