Brain-computer interfaces (BCI) allow direct communication between the brain and external devices. Electrodes are surgically implanted in the brain and detect neural signals, which are transmitted to a computer for analysis and use in controlling a device. BCI technology is being applied to mind-controlled prosthetics, allowing amputees to manipulate robotic limbs or wheelchairs through thought. For example, an amputee set a record climbing over 100 flights of stairs using a prosthetic leg controlled by his brain signals. BCI provides a new way for disabled individuals to control external technologies with their thoughts.

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4. Mind controlled
prosthetics with BCI
How they
work?
By Mehmet Akif
Bütüner
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5. OUTLİNE
A. What is Brain-Computer
Interface(abreviation:BCI)?
B. Principle behind BCI
C. Mission of BCI
D. How it is used in mind controlled
prosthetics

6. A. What is BCI
Direct communication pathway
between the brain and an external
device
Brain-computer interface is an
electrode chip which can be
implemented in the brain through
surgical procedure.

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8. B. Principle behind BCI
 This technology is based on to
1. Sense via electrodes in brain
2. Transmit with cables
3. Analyze by a computer
4. apply the language of neurons to device

9. C. Aim of BCI
 Developing a fast and reliable connection between the
brain of a severely disabled person and a personal
computer .

10. D. How it is used in mind
controlled prosthetics
 Robotic Limbs
 Computer Control
 Robotic Wheelchair

11.  Amputee sets stair climbing
record with Vanderbilt
prosthetic leg by climbing
103 flights of stairs to the
top of Chicago’s Willis
Towers.
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Robotic Limbs

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Computer Control

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Robotic Wheelchair

14. Conclusion
 Robotics is about us. It is the discipline of emulating
our lives, of wondering how we work.
ROD GRUPEN
Discover Magazine, June 2008

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