Mind-controlled telepresence robot to get paralyzed people out and about
From: Gizmag - 06/30/2015
By: Richard Moss

A telepresence robot developed at the École Polytechnique Federale de
Lausanne (EPFL) that can be controlled by thought may give people with severe
motor disabilities a greater level of independence. Successfully put through
its paces by 19 people scattered around Central Europe - nine of whom are
quadriplegic and all of whom were hooked up to a brain-machine interface -
the robot handled obstacle detection and avoidance on its own while the
person controlling it gave general navigation instructions.

Read the entire article and view a video (1:46) at:
http://www.gizmag.com/remote-mind-controlled-telepresence-robot/38231/

Links:
Towards Independence: A BCI Telepresence Robot for People with Severe Motor
  Disabilities
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?reload=true&arnumber=7109829

Robotino
http://www.festo.com/cms/en_corp/9766.htm

TOBI: Tools for Brain-Computer Interaction
http://www.tobi-project.org/

Related:
Honda's Brain-Machine Interface: controlling robots by thoughts alone
http://www.gizmag.com/honda-asimo-brain-machine-interface-mind-control/11379/

Mind-controlled robot avatars inch towards reality
http://www.gizmag.com/mind-controlled-robot-avatars/24994/

TOBI Project (video 4:05)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkPQRaqy7EE&feature=player_embedded

Submitted by Ray Grott