The World’s First Mind-controlled Exoskeleton by George Dvorsky

http://io9.com/the-world-s-first-mind-controlled-exoskeleton-511251650

Wow, is this a taste of the future, or what? Check out MindWalker — an exoskeleton that will soon enable paralysed and locked-in people to walk using only their mind. Ah, who are we kidding — we're ALL going to eventually want this for ourselves!

The groundbreaking device, which is currently under review by the European Commission, consists of three main elements: The exoskeleton itself, a virtual-reality user interface, and the mind-reading component. It was developed by a consortium of several major universities and companies.

Users control the MindWalker using an EEG cap that measures electrical activity at various points across the scalp. There are a number of different ways to control the exoskeleton in this way, but the best model involves wearing a pair of glasses with flickering diodes attached to each lens.

http://io9.com/the-world-s-first-mind-controlled-exoskeleton-511251650

Robots Can Learn To Hold Knives — and Not Stab Humans

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/11/05/2337257/robots-can-learn-to-hold-knives-and-not-stab-humans?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

aurtherdent2000 writes  

"We humans enjoy not having knives inside of us. Robots don't know this (Three Laws be damned). Therefore, it's important for humans to explain this information to robots using careful training. Researchers at Cornell University are developing a co-active learning method, where humans can correct a robot's motions, showing it how to properly use objects such as knives. They use it for a robot performing grocery checkout tasks."