{"id":4296,"date":"2009-06-30T14:36:34","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T05:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=4296"},"modified":"2009-06-30T14:36:34","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T05:36:34","slug":"brain-controlled-wheelchair-demo-ed-by-toyota-and-riken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/brain-controlled-wheelchair-demo-ed-by-toyota-and-riken\/","title":{"rendered":"Brain Controlled Wheelchair Demo-ed by Toyota and Riken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BSI-TOYOTA Collaboration Center (BTCC), which was established in 2007 by RIKEN as a collaborative project with Toyota Motor Corporation , Toyota Central R&#038;D Labs, Inc., and Genesis Research Institute, Inc. made a demonstration of their developing wheelchair which you can manoeuvre just by brain wave, i.e. thinking.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/brain-controlled-wheelchair-photo-400x384.png\" alt=\"brain-controlled-wheelchair-photo\" title=\"brain-controlled-wheelchair-photo\" width=\"400\" height=\"384\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4298\" \/><br \/>\nThe demonstrator showed when he imaged a person walking with his two feet, the wheelchair went straight. When he imaged moving his right hand, it turned right.<br \/>\n<object width=\"320\" height=\"265\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dmenGuc21qY&#038;hl=ja&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<caption>(demonstration movie)<\/caption>\n<p>This kind of experiment is not the first in history, but this one realizes brain-wave analysis in as little as 125 ms, which makes the wheelchair speed practical for real usage.<br \/>\nThe catched commands accuracy rate is 95%, which they told is one of the highest in the world.<br \/>\nAs on the diagram below, the system knows which part of brain are active when the person images some defined shape\/concept.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/brain-controlled-wheelchair-system-diagram-399x280.png\" alt=\"brain-controlled-wheelchair-system-diagram\" title=\"brain-controlled-wheelchair-system-diagram\" width=\"399\" height=\"280\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4299\" \/><br \/>\nAlthough Toyota seems to be involved a lot, at this point they are not thinking to implement this technology into cars soon, on their comments. It is expected to be applied for nursing care field.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceportal.jp\/news\/daily\/0906\/0906301.html\">Science Portal<\/a> [J]<\/p>\n<h3>See Also:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.riken.jp\/engn\/r-world\/info\/release\/press\/2009\/090629\/\">Riken&#8217;s Press Release<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/robot.watch.impress.co.jp\/docs\/news\/20090630_298462.html\">Impress Robot Watch has more details, photos and researcher&#8217;s comment<\/a> [J]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BSI-TOYOTA Collaboration Center (BTCC), which was established in 2007 by RIKEN as a collaborative project with Toyota Motor Corporation , Toyota Central R&#038;D Labs, Inc., and Genesis Research Institute, Inc. made a demonstration of their developing wheelchair which you can manoeuvre just by brain wave, i.e. thinking. The demonstrator showed when he imaged a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/brain-controlled-wheelchair-demo-ed-by-toyota-and-riken\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brain Controlled Wheelchair Demo-ed by Toyota and Riken<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,35],"tags":[491,492,493,3134,3784,4077],"class_list":["post-4296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-technology","tag-brain","tag-brain-control","tag-brain-wave","tag-riken","tag-toyota","tag-wheelchair","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}