Willis, a brown-haired suit-wearing fellow and an expert in AI, hooked himself up to a computer with a cable to the neck port and then started typing with the same kind of fingers the secretaries had. While it is established that people in the GitS 'verse can connect their minds directly, doing it that way opens up the user to mind-hacking. Something similar in the Ghost in the Shell (1995) film: There are at least two scenes in which we see cybernetically-enhanced individuals extend their fingers into some highly dexterous tentacle-things which they then use to type on keyboards.Suneo from the main cast notably becomes a Gadgeteer Genius whose left hand can turn into half a dozen smaller robotic hands, typing simultaneously into all kinds of control panels and controlling multiple machines at the same time. Doraemon: Nobita and The Space Heroes (a Superhero Episode of the franchise) have the gang gaining superpowers thanks to Doraemon's gadgets.Naturally, a robot using a keyboard is almost guaranteed to be superhumanly proficient at Rapid-Fire Typing.Ĭontrast Brain/Computer Interface, Electronic Telepathy.

As thrilling as it might be to watch a robot send a wireless signal to a nearby computer, it wouldn't be very clear what it was accomplishing by doing so.

In visual media, it's most likely a case of Rule of Perception and the desire to have something actually happen on-screen. After all how many people do you see with cables or wires sticking out of their ear? Maybe it's an aversion of Plug 'n' Play Technology, if the robots are using a system designed for humans. Possibly the writer is trying to hold back on clues that the character is a robot or perhaps the character is meant to be hiding the fact from other characters. This leaves out the more interesting and probably easier path of forming some kind of short-range connection via cable or radio and just thinking at the computer in question. You see this all the time robots (usually the Robot Buddy) or cyborgs using controls just like people do. Jim Wright reviewing Star Trek: Voyager, ' Dark Frontier'

Robot typing fingers