Scientists test VR system to control robots from virtual cockpits

That’s because the system’s design was inspired by Descartes’ (fallacious) “homunculus” philosophical model of the mind — as in, our human bodies are operated by tiny versions of ourselves in cranial control centers. Likewise, the MIT CSAIL setup sets users up in a VR headset and places them in a virtual control room. There, they manipulate digital knobs correlating to each of the robot’s arms,