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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... -
Brain-controlled robotic arm lets quadriplegic woman feed herself chocolate (video)
Posted on December 17, 2012 | No CommentsA woman paralyzed from the neck down has been able to feed herself chocolate and move everyday items using a brain-controlled robotic arm. Aided by tiny electronic implants in her brain she... -
Mind-controlled robot development in Japanese-French joint laboratory (video)
Posted on November 13, 2012 | No CommentsResearchers in a Japanese-French joint robotics lab (CNRS-AIST Joint Robotics Laboratory) are working on ways to control robots via brain-computer interfaces (BCI). Their goal is to create devices that allow people to... -
Big Budget TV Documentary Builds Artificial Human Body From Bionic Parts
Posted on October 26, 2012 | No CommentsFrankenstein: Building The Bionic Human is a new science documentary, soon to be on Channel 4 in the UK, that aims to construct an artificial human from bionic body parts. The special documentary is... -
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... -
Robot Controlled by Human Mind Using fMRI (video)
Posted on July 8, 2012 | No CommentsScientists have managed to use fMRI scans of a human to control the movements of a robot body that allowed the researchers to control a robot in France from a... -
DEKA Upper-Limb Prosthesis Offers More Motion With Less Thought
Posted on June 6, 2012 | No CommentsAlthough this prosthesis is not brainwave-controlled – the patient moves it using his or her feet – but the system proudly holds the title of ‘most advanced robotic arm’. The... -
BrainGate Amazes Again: Paralyzed Woman Moves Thought-Controlled Robotic Arm (video)
Posted on May 19, 2012 | No CommentsThe BrainGate neural interface has been under development since 2002. During its first decade it has proven many times that implanted brain-computer interfaces could offer real hope to paralysed patients and to bionic technology. Last... -
The Dalai Lama has given his blessing to Dmitry Itskov’s Avatar 2045 project
Posted on May 3, 2012 | 13 CommentsApparently and a bit oddly the immortality project to transplant people’s brains into robots has received the blessing and support from the Dalai Lama. Dmitry Itskov, founder of Russia 2045, met His... -
Road to immortality? Russian entrepreneur’s Avatar project aims to create robot with human brain (video)
Posted on May 3, 2012 | 3 CommentsReaching immortality. One of humanity’s oldest goals. Is it an effort against nature or the next potential step of human evolution? A Russian businessman, Dmitry Itskov, founder of the Russia 2045... -
Professor José Millán’s Demonstration of Mind-Controlled Robot for Paraplegics
Posted on April 25, 2012 | No CommentsJosé del R. Millán, a professor at the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne has unveiled a robot that can be controlled by the brain waves of a paraplegic person wearing an... -
TED Video: Todd Kuiken About Bionic Prosthetics That Feel
Posted on December 8, 2011 | No CommentsSurgeon and engineer Todd Kuiken is building the most advanced prosthetic arm that connects with the human nervous system to improve motion, control and even to provide feeling. During Kuiken’s... -
Discovery Video of Pierpaolo Petruzziello’s Robotic Arm
Posted on April 20, 2011 | No CommentsFor today we take a look back at 2009 when Discovery Networks published a video of a man who controls a robotic hand with his mind. Pierpaolo Petruzziello’s amputated arm was... -
Puzzlebox Brainstorms Enables Controlling iRobot Roomba with Your Mind
Posted on April 19, 2011 | No CommentsPuzzlebox Brainstorms is an open source software project which helps introduce students to basic neuroscience and brain-computer interfaces. In particular it incorporates exercises which help students to learn and practice focusing... -
Indian Scientists Working on Brain-Controlled Robot to Help Disabled Patients
Posted on March 23, 2011 | 2 CommentsScientists at the National Brain Research Center (NBRC) of India are working on a brain-controlled robot that will help disabled patients perform simple tasks like self-feeding, switching on the TV or... -
Bionic Arm Demonstrated by Retired US Military Sergeant
Posted on February 18, 2011 | 1 CommentA thought-controlled bionic prosthetic arm went on display at a major US science conference. More than 50 amputees worldwide, many of them military veterans whose limbs were lost in combat, have received... -
Brain-Controlled Prosthetic Arm First to Pass Speedy Approval Process
Posted on February 9, 2011 | No CommentsToday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed the Innovation Pathway, a priority review program for new, breakthrough medical devices and announced the first submission: a brain-controlled, upper-extremity prosthetic... -
Robot Programmed to Respond Facial Movements
Posted on February 7, 2011 | 1 CommentResearchers at Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand have revealed a special robot With, which is commanded solely by brain signals using an Emotiv EPOC headset. At the moment With is...
