Jan Scheuermann, a quadriplegic and pioneering patient for an experimental Pentagon robotics program, continues to break ground in freeing the mind from the body.
The 55-year-old mother of two in 2012 agreed to let surgeons implant electrodes on her brain to control a robotic arm. More recently, she flew an F-35 Joint Strike Fighter simulator using nothing but her thoughts, an official said.
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"Instead of thinking about controlling a joystick, which is what our ace pilots do when they're driving this thing, Jan's thinking about controlling the airplane directly," Prabhakar said. "For someone who's never flown -- she's not a pilot in real life -- she's flying that simulator directly from her neural signaling."
Prabhakar said the research is far from becoming reality. Even so, she acknowledged that it raises fundamental moral and ethical questions about the intersection of biology and robotics.
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If you can think in Russian, you can fly the Mig-31
This is one movie that could definitely use a remaster or re-make.
It was about 10 years to soon. The SFX just weren't up to snuff for the time, but as long as they could maintain the same gritty feel, and keep the period 80's era communist Russia, it would be a home run.
I just said Robotech because most people wouldn't know what I'm talking about, since most of NA grew up on Robotech. But yeah, you're right, Robotech didn't have the brain wave control, only later episodes in Macross Plus.
Woman Flew an F-35 Simulator with Her Mind
