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