{"id":92995,"date":"2019-07-01T23:44:08","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T06:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/this-new-mind-controlled-robot-arm-works-without-a-brain-implant"},"modified":"2019-07-01T23:44:08","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T06:44:08","slug":"this-new-mind-controlled-robot-arm-works-without-a-brain-implant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/this-new-mind-controlled-robot-arm-works-without-a-brain-implant","title":{"rendered":"This New Mind-Controlled Robot Arm Works Without a Brain Implant"},"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\/UkZquERzoOo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you want to control a robot with your mind \u2014 and really, who doesn\u2019t? \u2014 you currently have two options.<\/p>\n<p>You can get a <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/jets-pilots-mind-control-darpa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">brain implant<\/a>, in which case your control over the robot will be smooth and continuous. Or you can skip the risky, expensive surgery in favor of a device that senses your brainwaves from outside your skull \u2014 but your control over the bot will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2016\/12\/161214085926.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">jerky and not nearly as precise<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a team from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is narrowing the gap between those two options, creating the first <a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.cmu.edu\/news-events\/news\/2019\/06\/20-he-sci-robotics.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">noninvasive mind-controlled robot arm<\/a> that exhibits the kind of smooth, continuous motion previously reserved only for systems involving brain implants \u2014 putting us one step closer to a future in which we can all use our minds to <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/videos\/next-century-brain-computer-interfaces-mainstream\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">control the tech<\/a> around us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to control a robot with your mind \u2014 and really, who doesn\u2019t? \u2014 you currently have two options. You can get a brain implant, in which case your control over the robot will be smooth and continuous. Or you can skip the risky, expensive surgery in favor of a device that senses [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92995","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=92995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}