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Innovation of the Week: Toyota’s Brain Control of Wheelchairs


Posted by: meikah | 29 June 2009 | 5:23 pm
sixsig innovation of the week
This week’s innovation story features Toyota. PC World reports:

Researchers in Japan have developed a brain-machine interface (BMI) system that allows for control of a wheelchair using thought.

The system processes brain thought patterns and can turn them into left, right and forward movements of the wheelchair with a delay as short as one-thousandth of a second. That’s a vast improvement over other systems that can take as long as several seconds to analyze and react to the user’s thoughts.

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