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BMI System Lets sers Control Robotic Arm While Their Hands Are Busy
Researchers at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International in Japan have created a brain-machine interface for the manipulation of a robotic arm.
Credit: Penaloza and Nishio
Researchers at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International in Japan have created a brain-machine interface (BMI) for manipulating a robotic arm without requiring the use of hands.
Their system enables the user to control three limbs at once, including two natural arms and the robotic arm.
The researchers demonstrated the system by having volunteers balance a ball on a flat surface while the system recorded their brain wave activity; afterward, when a volunteer would think about balancing the ball, the system would recognize the brain wave pattern and move the robot arm to move the ball in a similar way.
The researchers found some volunteers were more successful than others in having the robot arm balance the ball, which the researchers said probably was due to the volunteers, not the system.
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