
An international team of scientists calling themselves the Virtual Embodiment and Re-Embodiment Project (of course) have invented a robot controlled entirely by human thought. Yawn. Well, wake up, because that’s not even the half of it. The Virtual Embodiment and Re-Embodiment Project’s spokesman Abderrahmane Kheddar told The New Scientist that this is only phase one. “The ultimate goal is to create a surrogate, like in Avatar.” You read that right. Someday, we will all be billion dollar Dancing With Wolves rip-offs …