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Mindwalker exoskeleton uses EEG cap to help disabled people walk again
Posted on March 13, 2013 | 3 CommentsAlthough no medical cure currently exists for spinal cord injury, paralyzed patients in the future could be able to walk again thanks to robotic exoskeleton technology, being developed all around the... -
Implant gives rats sixth sense, now they can see infrared light
Posted on February 13, 2013 | 3 CommentsDuke University researchers have equipped rats with implanted sensors that enable them to see and respond to infrared light, which is normally invisible to rodent (and human) eyes. Rats in the... -
New HAL Exoskeleton: Brain-Controlled Full Body Suit to Be Used In Fukushima Cleanup
Posted on October 18, 2012 | 13 CommentsJapanese company Cyberdyne announced today an improved version of HAL (Hybrid Assistive Limb), the exoskeleton which we wrote about almost two years ago, when a tech journalist took a few steps at CES... -
Brain-Controlled Exoskeleton Legs Hold Promise for Paraplegics (VIDEO)
Posted on September 5, 2012 | No CommentsSpinal cord injury victims may be able to look forward to life beyond a wheelchair via a robotic leg prosthesis controlled by brain waves. -
Brainwave-reading Exoskeleton Uses Thoughts to Innovate Stroke Survivors’ Rehabilitation
Posted on August 27, 2012 | 7 CommentsNew device would help rehabilitate stroke survivors by turning thoughts into actions, retraining motor pathways. The research aims to help stroke victims recover the ability of using their limbs with an exoskeleton... -
Mind vs Muscles: Emotiv Controlled Pong Helps to Develop Future Factories (video)
Posted on June 13, 2012 | 1 CommentThis is not the first mind-controlled Pong we have seen, but the only reinterpretation so far that comes with a real table, real ball and physical racquets. One of the players uses an Emotiv EPOC brain-computer... -
Brain-Machine-Brain Interface (BMBI) Enables Tactile Feedback, Explores New Sensory Channel
Posted on October 5, 2011 | No CommentsIn a first ever demonstration of a two-way interaction between a primate brain and a virtual body at the Duke University Center for Neuroengineering, two monkeys learned to employ brain activity... -
Interview with Professor Nicho Hatsopoulos About His BCI Feedback Innovation
Posted on January 14, 2011 | 5 CommentsSmartplanet.com recently made an interview with Nicho Hatsopoulos, associate professor and chair of computational neuroscience at the University of Chicago, about this latest innovation in brain-machine technology. -
CES: Thought-Controlled HAL Exoskeleton Monitors Brain Signals
Posted on January 10, 2011 | No CommentsFrom: wired.com Tech journalist Evan Ackerman took a step into science-fiction, literally. At CES 2011, Evan became the first person in the US to try on a pair of cyber-trousers... -
Brain-controlled Exoskeleton with Sensory Feedback Close to Reality
Posted on December 15, 2010 | 1 CommentFrom: sfn.org Monkeys moved thought-controlled computer cursors more quickly and accurately when provided with additional sensory feedback, according to a new study in the Dec. 15 issue of The Journal of...
