Honda Research Institute Japan Co., Ltd. (HRI-JP), a subsidiary of
Honda R&D Co., Ltd., Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute
International (ATR) and Shimadzu Corporation have collaboratively
developed the world’s first Brain Machine Interface (BMI)
technology that uses electroencephalography (EEG) and near-infrared
spectroscopy (NIRS) along with newly developed information extraction
technology to enable control of a robot by human thought alone.
http://world.honda.com/news/2009/c090331Brain-Machine-Interface-Technology/