{"id":96536,"date":"2019-09-21T22:22:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T05:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/wearable-brain-machine-interface-could-control-a-wheelchair-vehicle-or-computer"},"modified":"2019-09-21T22:22:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T05:22:25","slug":"wearable-brain-machine-interface-could-control-a-wheelchair-vehicle-or-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/wearable-brain-machine-interface-could-control-a-wheelchair-vehicle-or-computer","title":{"rendered":"Wearable brain-machine interface could control a wheelchair, vehicle or computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wearable-brain-machine-interface-could-control-a-wheelchair-vehicle-or-computer2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Combining new classes of nanomembrane electrodes with flexible electronics and a deep learning algorithm could help disabled people wirelessly control an electric wheelchair, interact with a computer or operate a small robotic vehicle without donning a bulky hair-electrode cap or contending with wires.<\/p>\n<p>By providing a fully portable, wireless brain-machine interface (BMI), the wearable system could offer an improvement over conventional electroencephalography (EEG) for measuring signals from visually evoked potentials in the <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/human+brain\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">human brain<\/a>. The system\u2019s ability to measure EEG signals for BMI has been evaluated with six human subjects, but has not been studied with disabled individuals.<\/p>\n<p>The project, conducted by researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Kent and Wichita State University, was reported on September 11 in the journal Nature Machine Intelligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Combining new classes of nanomembrane electrodes with flexible electronics and a deep learning algorithm could help disabled people wirelessly control an electric wheelchair, interact with a computer or operate a small robotic vehicle without donning a bulky hair-electrode cap or contending with wires. By providing a fully portable, wireless brain-machine interface (BMI), the wearable system [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":377,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96536","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\/377"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}