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The first brain-controlled drone race just took place in Florida

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In the future, if you want to go somewhere or have your robot do something, you might only have to think about it. The University of Florida held a race April 22 which it called the first drone race controlled by the thoughts of the pilots. According to Motherboard, the pilots used a device that measured the electrical signals from their brains, called a brain-computer interface (or BCI) to direct the drones. The pilots look at a computer program, think about going "forward," and the drones slowly move ahead. "Think forward--think about pushing a chair forward," Juan Gilbert, a computer science professor at the University of Florida, said in a video released by the university. "We learn to navigate the drone based on brain patterns for specific things you are thinking about."