Paralyzed Person Can Use Brain Signals to Control Robot
By Good News Network Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Swiss scientists have demonstrated how a partially paralyzed person can control a robot using brain signals alone.
The team at Switzerland’s Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne says the experiment takes them a step closer to enabling immobile patients to easily interact with their surroundings using a simple head cap to record the brain signals.
(READ the AP story in the Washington Post)
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