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He put up Transformer robots in his yard, drawing the ire of some Georgetown residents.
Howard spoke with Insider about how the robots stand for curing Parkinson s with a brain chip.
A viral neighborhood spat in the nation s capital over Transformers that drew scores of tourists to a secluded Georgetown street is actually not about irking the rich and powerful, according to the man behind the robots.
Instead, it s about a billionaire cognitive scientist s efforts to restore human dignity to those suffering from diseases like Parkinson s and Alzheimer s by perfecting a brain-computer interface, Georgetown professor Newton Howard told Insider.