Published February 19, 2020
Articles published in FoxNews and the New York Post mentioned that a UB team was funded by DARPA to study the brain waves and eye movements of gamers to help build an advanced AI system that could control the actions of military robots.
The study, which is led by Souma Chowdhury, an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, will center on real-time strategy games. These are time-based (as opposed to turn-based) and involve using resources to build units and defeat opponents. Examples include StarCraft, Stellaris and Company of Heroes.
Read the story on FoxNews here and the New York Post here.
