Multitasking might have a new meaning and an endless world of possibilities thanks to a researcher at Arizona State University who has figured out not only how to control multiple drones at one time, but what part of the brain controls certain movements of a robot. Since obtaining his doctorate degree in 2009 from Arizona State University, Panagiotis Artemiadis has been working on a system to control drones through brain activity. That system uses a skull cap with 128 electrodes wired to a computer. Through this skull cap, brain activity is transmitted to the drones through a Bluetooth connection. Once the robots have received these signals, they can perform a variety of functions. Currently, up to four robots, some of which actually fly, can be controlled through this skull cap.
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