Rehabilitation Robotics: A hybrid brain-robot interface for social interaction
The video shows how the humanoid iCub robot assists people with severe motor control deficits to engage in social interaction without the need for any own movements. The system is based on a brain-robot interface that analyzes human brain signals in real-time and triggers the interaction. The system is hybrid in the sense that unlike many other brain-machine interfaces two different brain patterns are analyzed in parallel and used for different elements of the interaction. Further, the robot is not fully controlled by the interface, but its semi-autonomous behavior is manipulated only when the user needs assistance.
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