There’s some new competition at this year’s Robo-One tournament: A warrior robot controlled by its thought. The bot is operated by Taku Ichikawa, who controls the robot through a set of electrodes applied to his head that measure his neural activity.

So far he can walk forward, rotate right, and using its single arm to stab. The 12 electrodes attached to Ichikawa’s head relay his commands via a wireless connection. The technology comes from a hands-free wheelchair project Ichikawa helped to develop. It requires the operator to imagine a set of movements many times a day. The developers tied particular movements with particularly clear mental images, allowing users to command the chair without any training.

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