Ricerc@Sapienza

Over the years, there have been many improvements in job-related safety standards and working conditions, but there are still many situations and environments where human lives are put at risk, such as in search and rescue situations, construction sites, and chemical plants. We envision a world where robots can act as physical avatars and effectively replace humans in those hazardous scenarios through teleoperation.

The development of technological applications that allow people to control and embody external devices within social interaction settings represents a major goal for current and future brain-computer interface (BCI) systems

The efficient control of our body and success- ful interaction with the environment are possible through the integration of multisensory information. Brain–computer interface (BCI) may allow people with sensorimotor dis- orders to actively interact in the world. In this study, visual information was paired with auditory feedback to improve the BCI control of a humanoid surrogate. Healthy and spinal cord injured (SCI) people were asked to embody a humanoid robot and complete a pick-and- place task by means of a visual evoked potentials BCI system.