Rosemont School students demonstrate cutting-edge technology by controlling robots with brain waves

By Halimah Barnett



Rosemont School of the Holy Child middle-school students are making big waves with the computer software they use to energize robots.

“What we do is we take EEG headsets, and we run software which allows us to control devices like LEGOs, helicopters, wheelchairs and so on using our minds,” said Castellotti. “I used to work at the Rosemont School when I was in college and it seemed like the perfect opportunity to bring something to the kids they would enjoy that would help them learn a little bit about science, neuroscience, biology and physics.”

The students sit in front of a computer screen running the data-collection program. They put on the headsets that transmit brain waves through the computer. Their signal strength and concentration level directly correspond to the motion to the robots.

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The robot experiments are linked to the unit on electromagnetic waves the sixth-graders are studying in science class.

“Our unit has been on sound and light and we started this program looking at the waves and our brain waves but it has morphed into them learning to collect data and focus their attention on being able to move robots, which connects to our robotics program. It is a great overlap between the two programs,” said Rosemont School science teacher Karen Grossman.

“The students have just taken to it amazingly. They love it and they have a great time doing it,” she added.


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