Scientists from Switzerland and Spain managed to develop a robot whose movements can be controlled by the power of thought; They hope to apply the invention to wheelchairs
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Swiss and Spanish scientists are currently working on developing a wheelchair controlled by the brain. The scientists hope that within a few years the chair will be able to grant independence to people suffering from severe paralysis. The system includes a helmet with electrodes, which is placed on the patient's head. The electrodes transmit messages and transmitters from the brain to the chair via a wireless connection.
Advertisement "Preliminary experiments conducted on a robot showed that after two days of training, the robot's movements can be controlled using messages transmitted by the brain alone," said yesterday the system developer, Jose Milan from the Institute for the Development of Artificial Intelligence in Lausanne, Switzerland. Along with him, researchers from the Institute of Biomedical Engineering in Barcelona are also engaged in the development of the system.
The researchers said that so far they have been able to make the robot move right, left, forward and backward using messages sent from the brain. The robot is equipped with artificial intelligence that allows it to recognize the environment in which it is located and prevents it from encountering objects standing in its way. The researchers are now trying to expand the number of movements the robot can perform.
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