Feel the need for speed? Try Ferrari sim robot

Let's say I've got this huge industrial robotic arm in my garage collecting dust, and I'm wondering what to do with it. Well, it looks like I can use it to make a bad-ass Ferrari F-1 simulator. I mean, if scientists at Germany's Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics can do it, why can't I? The project, headed up by Paolo Rubuffo Giordano, is using just such a setup to research how the brain perceives motion. By running simulations and monitoring the players test subjects, the team can amass data on how we deal with movement along six axes. The subject sits in a cabin on a robot arm about 6.5 feet off the ground and navigates a Ferrari F2007 around a virtual track.