The BrainLab was one of the first to demonstrate that a person can control a robotic arm and a wheelchair with brain signals, Jackson said.

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He then moved on to learn to control the robotic arm.

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NASA in one case, to control a robotic arm that mimicked the motions of the wearer and helped build the first surgical simulator, an abdominal-surgery training program featuring a virtual stomach, gallbladder, and intestines.

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We've seen Emotiv's Epoc headset control cars and trapeze acts, but now a small posse of students at Columbia University is teaching it how to control a robotic arm.

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The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory have partnered together on a successful trial for a brain-computer interface that allows a person to control a robotic arm using only their thoughts.

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