Swiss Unveil Mind-Controlled Robot

Swiss scientists have demonstrated how a partially paralyzed person can control a robot using brain signals alone. The demonstration on Apr. 24 involved a partially tetraplegic patient at a hospital in the southern Swiss town of Sion who imagined lifting his fingers to direct a robot at the university 100 kilometers (62 miles) away.
A spectator moves out of the way as Mark-Andre Duc, seen on the computer screen, directs a robot at Switzerland's Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland, Tuesday, April 24, 2012. From the hospital 100 kilometers (62 miles) away, Duc imagined lifting his fingers to direct a robot. Swiss scientists demonstrated with this test how a partially paralyzed person can control a robot using brain signals alone.