01 Jun Milo the Brain-Controlled Wheelchair

Meet the 1st place winners of the NeuroTechX “Open Challenge” –  Milo, the brain-controlled wheelchair, developed by 35 students at McGill University.

Students from different backgrounds — including biology, computer science, hardware engineering, data collection, and machine learning — got together on their free-time to start a project to challenge themselves and improve the world around them. By gathering EEG bio-signals from the brain, they were able to process the data in order to direct the wheelchair forward, left, right, and stop. Over the course of the development, the students were able to create a wheelchair without using motor controls – just the control of the user’s mind – further improved with impressive semi-autonomous enhancements.

Watch the video above to learn how the team approached the project and worked to solve this challenging endeavor. Listen to the audio interview below that for background information on the development of Milo.

For background information on why Milo was created, what other brain-controlled wheelchairs exist, and what the team that created Milo is doing now, listen to the below CBC interview with Milo team leader, Marley Xiong:

Learn more about our other winners from NeuroTechX Student Clubs Competition 2019 and how you can get involved!