WATCH: AUSTRALIAN ARMY TESTS ROBOT DOGS CONTROLLED BY SOLDIERS’ MINDS

Tue 11 Apr 2023:

Soldiers using their minds to operate a robot dog as they patrol a dusty road and sweep a delipidated structure may sound like science fiction, but it is a real-world demonstration.

The Australian Army has perfected mind-control powers, with eight sensors neatly packed within a helmet that function in tandem with a Microsoft HoloLens,

The breakthrough includes an AI-decoder that converts a soldier’s brain signals into understandable instructions transmitted to the robotic quadruped, allowing humans to remain focused on their surroundings.

A new video shows military personal conducting a simulated patrol clearance using the robot dog, which was instructed to sweep a facility using what it read from a person’s brain waves – and with 94 percent accuracy.

The system was developed by the University of Technology Sydney that first unveiled the innovation last year, but recently published a new paper detailing the work.

‘The user used our augmented brain–robot interface (aBRI) platform to control the robot systems,’ reads the paper published by American Chemical Society on March 16.

‘The aBRI platform allows the user to interact with machines/robots in more natural forms, which is better than the conventional brain–computer interface (BCI) application setting, which requires users to remain stationary.’

Researchers described the aBRI platform having four main components: devices for interfaces, a mobile electroencephalogram (EEG) system, a single board computer, and a robot system.’

The previous work, announced last year, demonstrated the technology collecting EEG signals ‘from the frontal region of the head using noninvasive epitaxial graphene (EG) sensors on silicon carbide (SiC) on silicon with an unpatterned surface.’

The recent update showed the value of brain machine interfaces that sense instructions from the occipital lobe, responsible for visual perception like color, form and motion.

The human controller just needs to imagine the direction in which they want the robot to move and the machine follows.

The technology allows soldiers to control the robots hands-free which is ideal for combat.

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