The Laboratory of Robotics at the Department №12 has been developing the project “The Chair”, which is performed with grant support from the Russian Foundation for basic research. Developed hardware and software robotic complex “Chair” allows to control the system via a brain-computer interface (BCI), voice commands and gesture operator-invalid.

"Chair" can be managed even by completely paralyzed people. Besides, by reading the signals of the cerebral cortex, recognizing gestures and voice commands, the system operates more precisely and safely, as it has several channels of communication with the person.

This breakthrough is not simply compensating the person lost abilities, but gives some new capabilities which are not "in the basic configuration". This suggests that the future is moving from fiction into reality.