Australian army uses telepathy to control robot dogs

H ow will militaries of the future control robot troops on battlefields where communication is vulnerable to gunfire and explosions? The Australian army thinks the solution is mind control. Its soldiers recently used "telepathy" to guide a robot dog on a simulated patrol as part of two successful demonstrations. Army personnel donned an off-the-shelf Microsoft Hololens 2 mixed reality headset with a custom AI decoder that could capture and translate their brain waves into useful commands. The latter was built using a low-cost computer known as a Raspberry Pi. That sets the method apart from other brain-machine interface technology that…