DUPE: This Is a Quadrotor You Can Control With Your Mind

Physical remote control might be gracious when it comes to precision , but they ’ve bring nothing on mind - dominance when it comes to awful . Using an encephalogram headset , a data processor , and some serious thought - power , researcher have developeda quadrotor you may steer with your nous .

Developed at Zhejiang University , the Flying Buddy 2 is control with a serial publication of very specific cerebration . call back “ left hard ” make it take off or farming , “ left lightly ” make it rotate , “ correct ” makes it go forwards , “ energy ” makes it go up , “ grasp ” makes it go down , and blinking constitute it take picture . Presumably these intellection were choose because they ’re easy to say from brainwaves , because most of them are by all odds not intuitive .

The whole system was build up with the handicapped — specifically the paralyzed — in mind , in Leslie Townes Hope of give them another way to interact with the human race around them . It does n’t seem like it ’d be the prosperous thing to get the knack of , especially as far as precision is concerned . It ’s only in the prototype stage right now , so it ’s got a way to go , but it ’s still somewhat telling . Not a bad substitute for psychokinesis . [ New ScientistviaWired ]