Would you allow a computer program to control your dishwasher remotely?

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The Carnegie Mellon team have gone for the latter and have created a sophisticated computer program that enables just one person to control the robot.

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Emotiv sells a variety of software including a package of popular games like "Call of Duty" and "World of Warcraft" that are optimized for the company's headset, as well as a program designed to let users control a computer with thoughts instead of a mouse or keyboard.

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Those included stored memory (the ability to hold both a stored program and data), conditional control transfer, which allowed the computer to stop and be resumed, and the central processing unit, which allowed all computer functions to be coordinated through one source.

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Because the program is still in the early stages, much remains to be worked out, such as which computer control systems will be monitored and how the data will be collected.

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