Toyota develops a system more quickly for transmitting orders with the mind

29/06/2009 ADN

The Center of Collaboration BSI-Toyota has developed a system that allows to give orders in a robot only with the thought in 125 milliseconds, and that will be applicable to the field of the medicine, for example in wheelchairs, briefed Toyota today.

It is a matter of the Brain-Machine technology of Interface, known like BMI, that allows to give orders to machines and robots with just to think them.

According to a communiqué of Toyota, the most significant advance of its equipment on the subject of BMI is that it allows that the execution of the orders takes place 125 milliseconds after thinking them, in the face of other similar technologies that they require from several as of time of reaction.

The device has been developed by the center of collaboration BSI-Toyota (BTCC), created in 2007 among the independent institution Riken, Toyota Motor, Toyota Centran R&D Labs. and the center of research Genesis.

The rate of success of this new technology, which it is intended to use in the field of the medicine and the rehabilitation -especially in patients with some disability-, is of 95, one of the highest of the world, according to Toyota, percent.

For the time being has been proved in wheelchairs, that they can advance or turn to the right and to the left with just to think it.

According to the communiqué, the device, that is capable of adapting oneself to the characteristics of each user of the wheelchair, that it receives and that executes the orders so quickly than almost "any delay is perceived" between the order and the movement.

The research about this type of technology continues to achieve that they are the machines capable of recognizing and executing one senior number of orders and with senior success.

In March of this year the Japanese companies Fona and Shimadzu showed its last advances in this type of Interface technology Brain-Machine (BMI) with Asimo, the humanoide robot more advanced of the world.

The user could transmit four different orders -to scroll the left hand, the right, the two feet or the mouth - through the mind in Asimo with a phase difference of more than one second.

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