Next month kicks off in Brazil FIFA World Cup 2014, for which Adidas has released a special ball with built-in panoramic cameras. During the opening of the event organizers decided to showcase the latest advances in robotics. Right of first hitting the ball get paralyzed Brazilian teenager.
TechCrunch reports that the first kick of the ball at the World Cup in Brazil will make paralyzed disabled. Get up from the wheelchair and hit his foot on the ball will help robotic exoskeleton and 3D-printed helmet developed by engineers Colorado State University (CSU).
This initiative is part of the Walk Again Duke University. Using exoskeleton on a world scale event will be one of the first public demonstrations of robotic mechanism, controlled by the user through the interface Neurocomputing.
Exoskeleton supports the lower part of the body that allows paralyzed man to walk. To head attached disabled wireless electrodes that collect signals from the brain. Processed helmet signals cause the exoskeleton to move.
According robotics engineers from the Technical University of Munich, one of the project participants Walk Again, costume even simulates the tactile sensation while walking.
Each research team was assigned a role in the project. Some have developed a helmet and other exoskeleton created neyrointerfeys. Researchers recently published a video of the CSU, which describes the process of making a helmet for a robotic suit.