# A Brain on Earth Could Inhabit a Robot on Mars by Miguel Nicolelis > "In a century's time you could be lying on a beach on the east coast of Brazil, controlling a robotic device roving on the surface of Mars, and be subjected to both experiences simultaneously, as if you were in both places at once. The feedback from that robot billions of miles away will be perceived by the brain as if it was you up there." > **— Miguel Nicolelis**, *2009, Edge Annual Question, “What Will Change Everything?”* ## Sources and Context - **Direct quotation reproduced in the Edge response:** [Brain-Machine Interface BMI](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/11756) — James Geary's 2009 Annual Question response quotes Miguel Nicolelis directly and supplies the brain-machine-interface context for this exact extract. The speaker is Nicolelis; Geary is the author of the surrounding Edge response. - **Complete local collection index:** [[research/Edge 2009 Full Quotation Curation|Edge 2009 Full Quotation Curation]] — retained source-first archive record for the complete yearly response cohort. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Edge|Edge]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Article:** [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]] - **Article:** [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 BCI Report]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Next Interface Layer|Next Interface Layer]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Neural Interfaces and Continuity Architecture|Neural Interfaces and Continuity Architecture]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Brain-Computer Interfaces|Brain-Computer Interfaces]] - [[wiki/Neural Interfaces and Continuity Architecture|Neural Interfaces and Continuity Architecture]] - [[wiki/Cognitive Prosthesis|Cognitive Prosthesis]] - [[wiki/Virtual Reality|Virtual Reality]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "In a century's time you could be lying on a beach on the east coast of Brazil, controlling a robotic device roving on the surface of Mars, and be subjected to both experiences simultaneously, as if you were in both places at once. The feedback from that robot billions of miles away will be perceived by the brain as if it was you up there." — Miguel Nicolelis, 2009, Edge Annual Question, “What Will Change Everything?” https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-miguel-nicolelis-brain-inhabit-robot-mars ```