Mind Over Motor: Controlling Robots With Your Thoughts

Over recent months, in Jose del R Millan's computer science lab in Switzerland, a little round robot, similar to a Roomba with a laptop mounted on it, bumped its way through an office space filled with furniture and people. Nothing special, except the robot was being controlled from a clinic mo...

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Published in:	Discover (Chicago, Ill.) Vol. 32; no. 10; p. 16
Main Author:	Daley, Jason
Format:	Magazine Article
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago Kalmbach Publishing Company 01-12-2011
Subjects:	Brain Control systems Human-computer interaction Medical technology Robots Lausanne Switzerland Switzerland
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Summary:	Over recent months, in Jose del R Millan's computer science lab in Switzerland, a little round robot, similar to a Roomba with a laptop mounted on it, bumped its way through an office space filled with furniture and people. Nothing special, except the robot was being controlled from a clinic more than 60 miles away--and not with a joystick or keyboard, but with the brain waves of a paralyzed patient. Millan's system, announced in September 2011 at Switzerland's Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, is a big step in making brain-machine interfaces more useful by splitting the cognitive workload between the patient and the machine.
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ISSN:	0274-7529 2169-5407