BERN - Is it possible to control the
robot with the mind? it was not impossible. The reason is, researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland, from a robot with sophisticated technology that can be created by controlling the human mind.
Reported by the Telegraph, Thursday (26/04/2012), by wearing the electrode cap, the robot can be controlled by brain waves. For the first time robot control by people who have demonstrated paralysis. Through the use of a wheelchair, he tested the robot was in a hospital.
The system was developed by Jose Millan, a professor of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. He has specialized in the field of non-invasive interfaces between machines and the human brain.
"Having started this movement, the brain can relax. If not, it could be fatigue. The same technology can also be used to drive a wheelchair," said Millan.
According to him, this technology has limited the brain gets scrambled signal if too many people who gathered around the examiner. Millan also said, used the robotic control is not only to move a wheelchair, but can also help patients to recover the sense of feeling on (sense).
Meanwhile, the researches Stephanie Lacour and his team are now working on electrical skin for someone who does not have hands. Glove-shaped device with tiny sensors equipped the information directly to the user's nervous system.
In the end, according to Lacour, with electric skin, the researchers hope to create a mechanical prosthesis. This tool not only mobile but also sensitive like a natural hand.
Other studies try to scientists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne working on a project that people can paraplegics (paralysis) to run normally develop. The investigation was carried out by implanting an implant system electrodes in the spine.
"The goal is to go after a year of training with the robotic system, the patient can again, without the help of robots. Electrode system into the implant and the living will be embedded," said Gregoire Courtine, one of the scientists the developed technology.