Cool Tech: MIT CSAILS System Lets Wearers Control Robots with their Biceps

This is awesome technology: control a robot with your biceps. The system is called RoboRaise. According to the article, the system "enables human orchestrators to perform tasks with machines by moving their arm muscles." Imagine what you could do:

• Lift heavy boxes in a factory on the other side of the world 
• Place construction materials on a high rise building from a remote area 
• Assist a person with moving a heavy object 

The graduate students assisted the robot by going through the motion, and the robot learned to pick up visual cues from its human trainer. Pretty cool, don't you think?

Above: A human and robot work together to lift an object.
(Image Credit: MIT CSAIL)