Robot Avatar Body Controlled By Thought

Diggester writes: Recent technology has shown that it is now possible to type by just thinking, so the use of thought to control a robot seems inevitable. The video seems like a scene out of Avatar but in it's first stages of the technology. The scientists of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Tsukuba, Japan have combined the teleoperating, the ability to remotely control a device, radios with an fMRI, which tracks mental activity in real time, to achieve this scientific breakthrough.