In an attempt to rediscover what else the human brain can control, a student in China who came from Shanghai Jiaotong University implanted microelectrodes in a cockroach's antennae in the hopes of kindling a reaction from the insect that is being controlled by the mind.

According to ChinaDaily, Li Guangye, a postgraduate from the said University successfully manipulated a cockroach through the human brain and using a portable controller. In order to see the result, a human controller must wear a device that collects brain waves that is simultaneously recognized by the computer. The computer will then send signals to a small device attached at the back of the cockroach, and this device will be the one to send the pulse to the cockroach's antennae that will allow the insect to move by way of human control.

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In a separate study made in Chile, called the "Thinker Thing," they were able to use an EEG headset to manipulate the leg of a cockroach and simultaneously make it move through the signals sent by brain waves. According to the TechnologyReview, the founder of the group, Bryan Salt, used an Emotiv EEG reader to record brain waves and signals that will be transferred to a computer that sends signals to the amputated leg of a roach and make it move.

According to NeuroGadget, Salt said, "What we do with the software is we capture how the leg moves, to which particular stimulus, so we have lots of different wavelengths in the music and we can find out which one will actually stimulate it in a controlled fashion. So in this way, the computer learns how to control the leg." Salt also admitted that while the study is to confirm what the brain can actually do directly to the computer, this study has already been successfully done by scientists, testing how the brain controls the muscles without passing through the spinal.

While the study has yet to be discovered more, Salt is not shy on revealing their next project, which is to build an actual physical objects using only brain waves or the power of mind control.

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