{"id":164571,"date":"2023-05-26T04:23:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T09:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/graphene-sensor-could-let-you-control-robots-with-your-mind"},"modified":"2023-05-26T04:23:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T09:23:30","slug":"graphene-sensor-could-let-you-control-robots-with-your-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/graphene-sensor-could-let-you-control-robots-with-your-mind","title":{"rendered":"Graphene sensor could let you control robots with your mind"},"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\/USHvnMtUeZQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Australian researchers have used the \u201cwonder material\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/science\/graphene-recycled-asphalt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">graphene<\/a> to develop a sensor that could enable anyone to control robot technology with their minds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe hands-free, voice-free technology works outside laboratory settings, anytime, anywhere,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uts.edu.au\/news\/tech-design\/mind-control-robots-reality\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> co-developer Francesca Iacopi. \u201cIt makes interfaces such as consoles, keyboards, touchscreens, and hand-gesture recognition redundant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>The challenge: <\/strong>Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are systems that translate brain activity into commands for machines, usually for medical reasons. A person with a limb amputation can use one to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/health\/bionic-arm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">control a prosthetic<\/a> with their mind, while someone with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/hard-tech\/new-brain-computer-interface\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">paralysis<\/a> could use a BCI to \u201ctype\u201d words on a computer screen just by thinking about them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian researchers have used the \u201cwonder material\u201d graphene to develop a sensor that could enable anyone to control robot technology with their minds. \u201cThe hands-free, voice-free technology works outside laboratory settings, anytime, anywhere,\u201d said co-developer Francesca Iacopi. \u201cIt makes interfaces such as consoles, keyboards, touchscreens, and hand-gesture recognition redundant.\u201d The challenge: Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164571","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}