Video: Harvard Scientists Develop Animal Mind Control

The interface was created by a team led by radiology assistant professor Seung-Schik Yoo and used entirely non-invasive techniques to enable mind communication between a human controller and a rat.

Communication may be an overstatement, but the results of the study are nonetheless impressive. The human controller was able to move a part of the rat’s body, more specifically the tail, just by thinking about it.

The Harvard team used six different pairs of human and rat subjects, with a 94% success rate and a 1.59 to 1.07 second delay between the moment when the human subject thought about moving the rat’s tail and the moment when the rat responded.