Singapore, Singapore, September 02, 2009 –(PR.com)– Two teams of engineers from A*STAR’s Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) have won the Institution of Engineers Singapore (IES) Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award 2009 for their research and development work. The first team won it for ‘Advancing the Brain Computer Interface (BCI) technologies’ while the second team clinched the award for their research in `Unleashing Underutilized Spectrum for Sustainable Future Communications’.

“An elaborate electronic helmet that allows the wearer to control a robot by thought alone has been unveiled by researchers in Japan. Scientists at the Honda Research Institute demonstrated the invention today by using it to move the arms and legs of an Asimo humanoid robot. To control the robot, the person wearing the helmet only had to think about making the movement. Its inventors hope that one day the mind-control technology will allow people to do things like turn air conditioning on or off and open their car boot without putting their shopping down.”