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Kevin at work with controlling a robot with his arm's nerves

Remember Kevin Warwick, the scientist who controlled a two-wheeled robot with live brain neurons of a rat? Well he is back and this time, he wants more control, by connecting to a remote computer in New York City’s Columbia University, while he is inside his lab.

You might think he is out of his mind, but this professor from the University of Reading is just not contented with making robots with little or no sense at all. He is really serious with what he is currently experimenting on. His own nerves to control the robotic systems through a remote server in New York.

In his own lab, he connected several electrodes to the nerves of his forearm. The actions that his arm is producing, is being fed to a remote server located inside the campus lab of Columbia University, in New York. The server is then networked to the robotic system, Warwick created in his lab, in the University of Reading. Interestingly, his experiment was a complete success.

Kevin is serious about those wires

Now, he is planning to have a sensor implanted on his own brain by 2015, even if he medically doesn't need one. Just for experimental purposes again, Kevin Warwick is straightforward with his intentions for the sensor that will allow him to send signals across a computer network.

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