Riken and Toyota Motors has developed a new signal processing technology for brain machine interface (BMI). At the occasion Japan’s research laboratory Riken researcher Choi Kyuwan displays a prototype electric powered wheelchair controled by his brain-wave analysis data in Tokyo.
The technology could be ground breaking as the use of brain to control the movements could than encompass almost every mechanical or electrical device. Think about cars, jets for instance. The new signal processing technology for brain machine interface (BMI) to command for smooth left and right turns and the forward motion of the wheelchair.
In this June 16, 2009 photo released by Riken Monday, June 29, 2009, a researcher wearing a cap trides on a wheelchair that can be steered by detecting brain waves at Riken Brain Science Institute in Wako near Tokyo, Japan. Toyota Motor Corp., says in a release Monday, June 29, 2009, it has developed a way of steering a wheelchair by just detecting brain waves, without the person having to move a muscle or voice command. Toyota’s system developed in a collaboration with researchers in the government-funded research institute Riken and others in Japan, is among the fastest in the world in analyzing brain waves, it said.
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