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Steering a car with thought alone

Samuel Kunz during training with a BCI cap (Photograph: ETH Zurich/Yves Bachmann)

With the support of neuroscientist Rea Lehner and a team from ETH Zurich, Samuel Kunz is training his brain to navigate a car through a computer racecourse via a Brain-Computer Interface (BCI). The ETH podcast follows him through a test run and Samuel talks about what it takes to prepare for the CYBATHLON . In this unique championship, people with physical disabilities compete against each other to complete everyday tasks using state-of-the-art technical assistance systems. As much as Samuel is looking forward to the many spectators, the noise backdrop will be one of the biggest challenges for him.