MIT Researchers Developing Brain-Powered Robot Control System

Robotics and its ongoing impact on humanity, particularly the workforce, is a frequent topic of discussion for Constellation Research. Now, a team at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence lab, along with Boston University, is developing a technology that targets an important sub-topic within the robotics debate: How humans may interact with them in the future. What if we could develop robots that were a more natural extension of us and that could actually do whatever we are thinking? A feedback system developed at MIT enables human operators to correct a robot's choice in real-time using only brain signals. 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.