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It was the first time that brain signals had been used to make a robot walk

“When that person thinks about walking,” he said, “walking happens.”

Researchers at Osaka University are stepping up efforts to develop robotic body parts controlled by thought, by placing electrode sheets directly on the surface of the brain.

"The virtual world provides the body," said Dr Ben Goertzel, founder and head of Novamente.

"We have a pretty fully functioning animal brain right now and we are hooking it up to the different virtual worlds,"

"I'd really like to do virtual talking parrots," he said, "and then virtual babies.