Heal My Body

Millions of people worldwide suffer from mobility impairments that prevent them from performing everyday activities. How would you interact with the world if you couldn’t move your limbs? Tom will explore the exciting and rapidly developing field of brain-computer interfaces, which “decode” some of your thoughts and turn them into actions. He will explore topics such as how to record and interpret brain signals; and how techniques from robotics can enable control of assistive technologies.

We are witnessing the dawn of a revolution in healthcare. Using computer models, we'll be able to create 'virtual twins' for each of us, that will be our most up-to-date version of ourselves in medical terms. These will become digital patients in hospitals; enabling doctors to tailor medical treatment and test drug efficacy virtually, before giving it to us & make predictions way into the future of potential outcomes - in a nutshell, manage our disease and provide truly personal healthcare.

You want to know more about current robotics, their importance and what it takes to design and build a robot? UCL Robotics Society is pleased to introduce their remotely controlled robot, Steve. Steve the robot was built using the Arduino electronics platform, very easy to use hardware and software. This year, Steve took part in the UCL’s Great Egg Race and won the first prize for the Institute of Making and his ‘eggspert’ skills will be demonstrated on the night.