{"id":150488,"date":"2022-11-18T20:22:18","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T02:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/ut-researchers-successfully-test-brain-powered-wheelchair-for-disabled-individuals"},"modified":"2022-11-18T20:22:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T02:22:18","slug":"ut-researchers-successfully-test-brain-powered-wheelchair-for-disabled-individuals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/ut-researchers-successfully-test-brain-powered-wheelchair-for-disabled-individuals","title":{"rendered":"UT researchers successfully test \u2018brain-powered\u2019 wheelchair for disabled individuals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rG0axr42s2o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>According to an <a href=\"https:\/\/news.utexas.edu\/2022\/11\/18\/brain-powered-wheelchair-shows-real-world-promise\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> by the university, the study is significant because it is a sign of future viability for noninvasive technology to help those with limited motor function.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe demonstrated that the people who will actually be the end users of these types of devices are able to navigate in a natural environment with the assistance of a brain-machine interface,\u201d said Jos\u00e9 del R. Mill\u00e1n, professor at the Cockrell School of Engineering\u2019s Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and leader of the international research team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an article by the university, the study is significant because it is a sign of future viability for noninvasive technology to help those with limited motor function. \u201cWe demonstrated that the people who will actually be the end users of these types of devices are able to navigate in a natural environment with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}