China’s BrainCo showed a platform that lets you control robots with your mind
Picture a lightweight headset. You think about picking up a cup, and a robot arm reaches out and does it. No button, no voice command, no movement. BrainCo drew crowds with that demo at the World AI Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, the South China Morning Post reported.
BrainCo calls its Brain-Controlled Robot AI Platform the world’s first integrated brain-to-robot system. That claim is the company’s own.
How it works
The platform runs in three steps, BrainCo said in a statement. An EEG headset reads the wearer’s brain signals. AI decodes them into a control intent, such as “grab that.” The system turns that intent into robot commands. The whole loop takes under 200 milliseconds.
In the demo, a mind-controlled arm grasped a cup and picked up an apple. BrainCo says the platform works with off-the-shelf robots, from humanoids to robotic arms to four-legged “dogs.” That lets it slot...
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