Dream Machine - New Machine Interprets Dreams

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New Machine Interprets Dreams
By Bill Christensen, Technovelgy.com

22 February 2008
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Sleep Waking is an unusual art work that combines recorded brainwave activity and REM sleep with robot behaviors. The Sleep Waking robot plays back your dreams, or, if you will, presents an interpretive dance of your dreams.

The Sleep Waking robot is the result of a collaboration between Fernando Orellana and Brendan Burns. Orellana spent a night in The Albany Regional Sleep Disorder Center in New York. The staff wired him up and collected data of every conceivable kind: EEG, EKG, rapid eye movement - you name it. Orellana describes the use of the data to animate the robot in this way:

"The eye position data we simply apply to the position the robot's heads is looking. So if my eye was looking left, the robot looks left...cont'd

http://www.livescience.com/technology/080222-sleep-robot.html