Brain racers
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IN OCTOBER 2016, inside a sold-out arena in Zurich, a man named Numa Poujouly steered his wheelchair up to the central podium. As the Swiss national anthem played, organizers of the world's first cyborg Olympics hung a gold medal around Poujouly's neck. The 30-yearold, who became paralyzed after a bicycle accident in his teens, had triumphed in the tournament's most futuristic event: a video-game-like race in which the competitors controlled their speeding avatars with just their minds.
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Pilot P2 also reported reaching automatic BCI control.
“This was also reported by our pilot P2 [44].”
From The Cybathlon BCI race: Successful longitudinal mutual learning with two tetraplegic users (2018) · cites this paper as [44]
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Cited by 12
- Authors
- Perdikis, S., Tonin, L., & del R. Millan, J.
- Affiliations
- Bandung Institute of Technology (ID)
- Venue
- IEEE Spectrum
- Published
- 2017-09
- Volume
- 54
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 44-51
- ISSN
- 0018-9235 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2761975708
- Cited by
- 12
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2023: 2 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 4
- FWCI
- 1.26
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- infoscience.epfl.ch
- Locations
- IEEE Spectrum (publishedVersion)
- Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) (submittedVersion)
- Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Open Access at Essex (University of Essex) (submittedVersion)
- Padua Research Archive (University of Padova) (submittedVersion)
- IEEE Spectrum
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Gaze Tracking and Assistive Technology
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Rehabilitation › Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
- Keywords
- brain-computer interface, wheelchair racing, paralysis, neurotechnology, avatar control
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