London-based Extend Robotics has officially completed a test of its virtual reality, remote-controlled robots at Leyland Trucks (Leyland) factory in Preston, United Kingdom. As part of a collaboration ...

Worried that machines will someday control the human race? If so, relax. Researchers at UB and elsewhere are helping to advance technology that allows people to control robots with their minds. UB isn ...

Using BrainGate, the world's most advanced brain-computer interface, a woman with quadriplegia has used a mind-controlled robot arm to serve herself coffee -- an act she hasn't been able to perform ...

Researchers have developed biosensor technology that will allow you to operate devices, such as robots and machines, solely through thought control. Researchers from the University of Technology ...

(Nanowerk News) Tetraplegic patients are prisoners of their own bodies, unable to speak or perform the slightest movement. Researchers have been working for years to develop systems that can help ...

It sounds like something from science fiction: Don a specialized, electronic headband and control a robot using your mind. But now, recent research published in ACS Applied Nano Materials has taken a ...

An Israeli student has become the first person to meld his mind and movements with a robot surrogate, or avatar. Situated inside an fMRI scanner in Israel, Tirosh Shapira has controlled a humanoid ...

Although it is possible to control devices using brain waves, doing so usually involves having electrodes and conductive gel applied to one's head. Now, however, scientists have developed a ...