Chinese scientists have developed are robots – wearable “cobots” – that predict the intentions of the wearer accurately 96% of the time. This means that if you have it attached to your arm, it will predict what you want to do and do it (except for the last 4%, then does it break your arm??). This is cutting edge science.
A lot of caveats in this, and the sources is a (usually accurate) Russian propaganda news site, but it is potentially a huge idea.
This would be what you would need to build a true Tony Stark Ironman suit, leveraging tons of torque and jumping over tall buildings. Mechanical operation would just be too slow.
Mind-reading robot tested on humans – reports
The article linked from this one states that the efficiency of the “mind reading robot” was no more than 70% accurate, and that was after hundreds of hours of training the people wearing the sensors. My arm is 100% accurate when my mind tells it to reach out and pick up something. Any robotic arm controlled by me is also 100% accurate, with no mind-reading required. Reading minds is an entirely different concept from determining potential muscle motion, and these devices can only accomplish the latter. Claiming that they can actually determine what you are thinking is nothing but a tactic to scare people who do not understand technology.
Yep you are right, the “mind reading” part is definitely an overplay. Had a girlfriend who could “read my mind” and claimed 100% accuracy. She wasn’t, not even close, but I was always 100% in trouble.
But it is a start, it may be that a human will eventually be trained to operate these gadgets by purposely manipulating those cues to make up for the remaining 30%. If so, then it could be faster that moving actuators of some kind. Interesting tech in any event.