A mind-reading headset lets people fly drones using their thoughts

A person looking at a drone

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.

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There have been other attempts to control multirotor drones using thought, but Subbaram Omkar, who led the research, believes the new …


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