Heriot-Watt University

This system is used for imaging cortical brain activity with Near-Infrared Spectroscopy. In ECR, we are interested in understanding the human body activity to generate the fine manipulations for highly skill requiring and professional tasks, typical in minimally invasive surgery operations in medicine and manual welding in industrial manufacturing. The OxyMon NIRS system enables us to record and analyse the brain activity of novice versus professional subjects and that of trainee subjects throughout the course of training.

8 many core nodes w/ GPGPU + 4 Transtec servers w/ Xeon Phi

The iCub head has 6 degrees of freedom and sports two cameras (Dragonfly2), two microphones (with special pinnae), gyros and accelerometers (Mtx). It also mounts a PC104 dual core machine with enough ports to control the entire robot, read data and send them out via a Gbit/s Ethernet port.