Designing Intelligence with Brains

For robots to do what we want, they need to understand us. Too often, this means having to meet them halfway: teaching them the intricacies of human language, or giving them explicit commands for very specific tasks. But what if we could develop robots that were a more natural extension of us and that could actually do whatever we are thinking? A team from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Boston University is working on this problem, creating a feedback system that lets people correct robot mistakes instantly with nothing more than their brains. THIS IS THE IMAGE SHOWING HOW ROBOT TAKES SIGNALS FROM HUMAN BRAIN.   A feedback system developed at MIT enables human operators to correct a robot's choice in real-time using only brain signals. Using data from an electroencephalography (EEG) monitor that records brain activity, the system can detect if a person notices an error as a robot performs an object-sorting task. The team’s novel ma