A group of people controlled drones using an EEG headset Ivan Kuznetsov / Alamy Stock Photo
I think, therefore I fly. Headsets that read brain waves are being used to fly drones, letting us control machines with just our thoughts.
A team from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore trained 14 people to control a multirotor drone using commercially available EEG headsets, devices that use small electrodes to test the electrical activity in your brain.
There have been other attempts to control multirotor drones using thought, but Subbaram Omkar, who led the research, believes the new system is accurate…
