A new help paralyzed patients and intelligent computers work together to create a robot that helps connect people in the world with enclosed check.
In recent months, in the computer lab José del R. Millan science in Switzerland, a small round robot, similar to a Roomba with a laptop on it (right) are installed, crashed his way through an office full of furniture and people. Nothing special, except that the robot was in a hospital 60 kilometers away, and not tested with a joystick or keyboard, but with the brain waves of paralyzed patients.
The trip was a joint experiment to control the robot, a type of brain-machine that combines the conscious mind and algorithms in order to better mentally disabled patients, the control devices to communicate with them and help retrieve objects. If the user experiences a mental misfire can software Millán step, to help. Instead of collapsing ladders, for example, recalculate the robot to find the door.
This technology is a potential life-changer for the tens of thousands of people with locked-in flash syndrome, a type of paralysis that leaves the patient with the ability. The condition is usually incurable, but the search for Millan might bearable, allowing patients to participate in the world of robotics through a proxy.
In recent months, in the computer lab José del R. Millan science in Switzerland, a small round robot, similar to a Roomba with a laptop on it (right) are installed, crashed his way through an office full of furniture and people. Nothing special, except that the robot was in a hospital 60 kilometers away, and not tested with a joystick or keyboard, but with the brain waves of paralyzed patients.
The trip was a joint experiment to control the robot, a type of brain-machine that combines the conscious mind and algorithms in order to better mentally disabled patients, the control devices to communicate with them and help retrieve objects. If the user experiences a mental misfire can software Millán step, to help. Instead of collapsing ladders, for example, recalculate the robot to find the door.
This technology is a potential life-changer for the tens of thousands of people with locked-in flash syndrome, a type of paralysis that leaves the patient with the ability. The condition is usually incurable, but the search for Millan might bearable, allowing patients to participate in the world of robotics through a proxy.