Brain-Controlled Robots: CSAIL System Enables People to Correct Robot
  Mistakes Using Brain Signals
From: Product Design and Development - 03/07/2017
By: Adam Conner-Simons

For robots to do what we want, they need to understand us. Too often, this
means having to meet them halfway: teaching them the intricacies of human
language, for example, or giving them explicit commands for very specific
tasks.

But what if we could develop robots that were a more natural extension of us
and that could actually do whatever we are thinking?

A team from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
(CSAIL) and Boston University is working on this problem, creating a feedback
system that lets people correct robot mistakes instantly with nothing more
than their brains.

Using data from an electroencephalography (EEG) monitor that records brain
activity, the system can detect if a person notices an error as a robot
performs an object-sorting task. The team’s novel machine-learning algorithms
enable the system to classify brain waves in the space of 10 to 30
milliseconds.

Read the entire article and view a video (1:11) at:
https://www.pddnet.com/news/2017/03/brain-controlled-robots-csail-system-enables-people-correct-robot-mistakes-using-brain-signals

Links:
How MIT's New AI System Lets You Control a Robot with Your Mind
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-mits-new-ai-system-lets-you-control-a-robot-with-your-mind

MIT Takes A Step Toward Mind-Controlled Robots (with audio 4:39)
http://www.wbur.org/bostonomix/2017/03/08/mit-mind-controlled-robots

Correcting Robot Mistakes in Real Time Using EEG Signals
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/drl/wiki/images/e/ec/Correcting_Robot_Mistakes_in_Real_Time_Using_EEG_Signals.pdf

Mind-Controlled Robots: System Enables People to Correct Robots Using Brain Signals
http://www.techbriefs.tv/video/Mind-Controlled-Robots-System-E

Related:
UMN research shows people can control robotic arm with their minds
https://twin-cities.umn.edu/news-events/umn-research-shows-people-can-control-robotic-arm-their-minds