The paper will be presented at the Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) conference taking place in Pittsburgh next week. Hasani, and Boston University Professor Frank H. Salazar-Gomez, former CSAIL research scientist Stephanie Gil, research scholar Ramin M. PhD candidate Joseph DelPreto was lead author on a paper about the project alongside Rus, former CSAIL postdoc Andres F. “By including muscle feedback, we can use gestures to command the robot spatially, with much more nuance and specificity.”
“This work combining EEG and EMG feedback enables natural human-robot interactions for a broader set of applications than we've been able to do before using only EEG feedback,” says CSAIL Director Daniela Rus, who supervised the work.
Importantly, they showed that the system works on people it’s never seen before, meaning that organizations could deploy it in real-world settings without needing to train it on users. The team demonstrated the system on a task in which a robot moves a power drill to one of three possible targets on the body of a mock plane. Using an interface that measures muscle activity, the person can then make hand gestures to scroll through and select the correct option for the robot to execute. Getting robots to do things isn’t easy: Usually, scientists have to either explicitly program them or get them to understand how humans communicate via language.īut what if we could control robots more intuitively, using just hand gestures and brainwaves?Ī new system spearheaded by researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) aims to do exactly that, allowing users to instantly correct robot mistakes with nothing more than brain signals and the flick of a finger.īuilding off the team’s past work focused on simple binary-choice activities, the new work expands the scope to multiple-choice tasks, opening up new possibilities for how human workers could manage teams of robots.īy monitoring brain activity, the system can detect in real-time if a person notices an error as a robot does a task.
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