Junichi Ushiba Laboratory, Department of Biosciences and Informatics: Turning Brain Plasticity into Hope

The Junichi Ushiba Laboratory is engaged in research on brain-machine interfaces (BMIs), which connect the brain and the body. A BMI involves wearing a wearable sensor to record brainwaves and using the power of AI to analyze them. This allows signals from the brain to be transmitted through AI to robots and other devices, enabling users to move a robot in place of their own body or control a character in a game. This groundbreaking research enables people with physical disabilities due to injury or illness to perform their intended movements through prosthetic hands and robots. Professor Junichi Ushiba speaks in detail about the BMI, which is poised to open up the future of medicine.