Quantum International has begun focusing on the potential of University of Houston-developed new brainwave interface that could revolutionize the medical robotics sector.
New Zealand-based Rex Bionics and such companies have been developing robotic exoskeletons specifically designed for paraplegics, enabling them to stand and walk. These innovative devices have been basically directed by joystick. But a team of engineers led by Prof. Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal at the University of Houston will soon arrive at an innovation that focuses on enabling disabled people to deploy exoskeleton based on brainwaves alone.
The team currently works on an external brain-machine interface that can translate intellect into robotic movement. Surgically implanted electrodes can help this feat. Contreras-Vidal is envisioning a Bluetooth headset.
According to Quantum CEO Robert Federowicz, the company houses one of the world’s major robotics projects. A functional brain-machine interface shows promising as well as challenging medical and commercial potential. The company is planning for negotiations with university researchers on the potential means to support and expedite the development and commercialization of this novel technology.
Quantum has partnered with the University of Houston by signing non-discloser agreement with the same intending to begin the collaboration.
Quantum mainly targets on health and healthcare and it investigates potentially lucrative new robotics innovations intended for marketing and commercialization. The company is now focusing toward a definitive agreement with the Warsaw, Poland-based prestigious Industrial Research Institute for Automation and Measurements (PIAP).
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