Telepathic Japanese Robots Within 10 Years?

So it looks like Japan is going for gold.

The “brainwave initiative” involves the government and private sector collaborating on electronics that can be controlled by thought alone

Ultimately the goal is coordinated teams of robots, networked together and communicating with embedded sensors using speech or thought to communicate with humans when appropriate!

of course the US is following with similar ideas in mind...

“While the U.S. Army actively pursues ‘thought helmets’ that might someday lead to secure mind-to-mind communication between soldiers, the Japanese are going after the consumer
market.”

edit: probably shoulda put this in science/technology, excuse my sloppiness.

[edit on 6-5-2010 by Vicious Jones]