Sean Lorenz

  • SSVEP-controlled robots

    September 2, 2011

    Both the brain-computer interface (BCI) and bran-machine interface (BMI) fields have shown some interesting applications as of late. One interesting potential is sure to be seen in the realm of EEG-controlled robotics. A partnership between the Neural Prosthetics Lab, Neuromorphics Lab, and Speech Lab at Boston University is underway to merge adaptive robotics with BCI [...]

  • The future is drying up

    May 21, 2011

    A few months ago, a neuromarketing firm, NeuroFocus, announced to the world the first wireless full brain coverage dry EEG cap — Mynd. The heavens parted and the brain-computer interface (BCI) community bowed before this humble offering of EEG cap which doth not requireth copious amounts of electrode goo. And it was good. Engadget was [...]

  • Franken-bot comes to life (for less $$$ than an iPad)

    December 28, 2010

    Written by: Sean Patrick Class Participants: Aaron Berliner, Ben Chandler, Byron Galbraith, Sean Lorenz, Sam Michalka, Sean Patrick, Jeremy Wurbs Robots are strong. Robots are delicate. They’re even glamorous. But can you build one? Actually, yes – you can. And you can do it without breaking the bank, too. These days, there are plenty of [...]

  • MoNETA and “the C word”

    December 7, 2010

    By Sean Lorenz, Heather Ames & Massimiliano Versace After the IEEE Spectrum article on MoNETA was released, a number of websites and blogs picked up the story. Many of the comments on these sites express passionate opinions spanning a wide swath of targets – memristors, Moore’s Law, the state of current AI, among other science-specific [...]

  • BCI Trends and Forecasts

    August 9, 2010

    During the first week in June, the 4th international BCI Meeting was held outside beautiful Monterey, California. This being my first BCI conference, I was excited to find out what innovations in the field were either in development or already being implemented. The organizers mentioned that the number of meeting participants had grown exponentially since [...]

  • The ever-changing BCI demographic

    February 20, 2010

    Brain-computer interfacing is an area of research that is currently in flux as researchers try to understand not only what but who BCIs will work best for. One study by a group of researchers at Bremen University, Germany has recently attempted to determine who, exactly, is the key demographic for BCI use. More specifically, they [...]

  • Programming a kinder, gentler conscious HAL

    July 18, 2009

    All this Neurdon hullabaloo over memristors and Kurzweilian futurism has got me thinking about the inevitable media question concerning all this: Will our RoboSlave Bots learn to love us in a somewhat creepy, Haley Joel Osment “Artificial Intelligence: AI” kind of way? In other words, will humans be able to one day produce conscious, silicon-based [...]