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Japanese scientists from the university of electrical communication to Tokyo developed the prototype of the invalid armchair, govern by which patient can with the aid of the "force of thought".
Moreover invalid armchair is the only one of the devices. To govern the force of thought, is planned with robots. As reports Nikkei Net, studies on the creation of the robotized invalid carriage were conducted under the management of professor Kazuo of Tanaka. Control of armchair is accomplished by means of the special helmet, supplied with special sensors. Helmet records cerebral waves and sends taken data to processing into the computer. Information then is used for the delivery of the commands to the electric drives of wheels.
Thus, in order to move carriage in the necessary direction to man it is sufficiently simple to think "to the left", "to the right", "forward" or "back". The development of this invalid armchair began several years ago. At the current moment the accuracy of the recognition of commands is 80 percent, and over the long term researchers expect to improve this index. Thus far nothing it communicates about the periods of the appearance of a commercial version of armchair.
By the way, with the creation of the robotized devices, to check work of which is possible with the aid of the thoughts, deal other scientific research organizations. For example, approximately one year in the Chicago rehabilitative institute were ago created the unique prostheses of hands, controlled by the "force of thought". The first person, who received such robotized prostheses, became electrician from Tennesi Of dzhessi Sullivan, who was deprived of both hands as a result of the accident