It is incredible what technology can accomplish! New advancements everyday! A robotic wheelchair controlled by thoughts? I thought that only was possible in movies? This is great for someone who is paralyzed. They can actually live an ordinary life. There is a screen in front of them displaying what is around them. They stare at what they want and the wheelchair registers that. Then using sensors and the machine the wheelchair is taken to it's destination with out bumping into any obstacles. “In 2006 the team demonstrated that four children with cerebral palsy could use a touch screen built into an earlier version of their wheelchair, to navigate around busy and constantly changing environments during their school day.” This is great opportunity and a great advancement in technology. What else can be accomplished? Pretty soon they can figure out how to make robots to do things for humans. Tell them what to do and they do it. “It's not the first wheelchair to be controlled by brain waves, but it is the only design to incorporate mind-control in a system capable of real-time navigation, route planning and collision avoidance,” says Palaniappan Ramaswamyfrom the University of Essex in Colchester, UK. Although this wheelchair is not perfected, it is still a great start for a whole new world of using robotics for aid. I hope that these advancements are not abused and used for the better of mankind.
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