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For those who may not be aware, Neuralink Corp. is a California-based company that is working on brain implants for humans, and it was founded by Tesla, SpaceX, and X (formerly Twitter), CEO Elon Musk. The brain-computer interface (BCI) startup has recently announced that it has received approval to begin recruiting patients for its first-ever …
A new kind of neural interface system that coordinates the activity of hundreds of tiny brain sensors could one day deepen the understanding of the brain and lead to new medical therapies. Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are emerging assistive devices that may one day help people with brain or spinal injuries to move or communicate. BCI …
Researchers warn of the potential social, ethical, and legal consequences of technologies interacting heavily with human brains. Surpassing the biological limitations of the brain and using one’s mind to interact with and control external electronic devices may sound like the distant cyborg future, but it could come sooner than we think. Researchers from Imperial College …
Monash University, Melbourne researchers have built a bionic device to restore vision to the blind via a brain implant, and these same implants could potentially treat paralysis as well. Preparations are now being made for what could be the world’s first human clinical trial for a bionic eye, and the research team is asking for …
Scientists are working towards building brain-controlled prosthetic limbs, and this recent study from researchers at the University of California suggests that the task of controlling those machines could be getting much easier, finding that a paralyzed patient was able to control a computer using a new system which learns to work with a user’s brain …
“..Imagine a place that is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, it is a vast space and as timeless as infinity, and it lies between the pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination…” This place, time, and the day may well …
Brain computer interfaces may soon be used to help humans essentially communicate telepathically according to a new report about neural implant technology by the Royal Society reviewed in The Independent. Some of the more exciting prospects of brain computer interfaces using artificial intelligence were covered in the report, but it also warned that hooking up …
Using tablets and other mobile computing devices is difficult for those with paralysis. Brain computer interfaces may enable those with paralysis to directly operate a tablet just by thinking about it, as published in PLOS ONE. In clinical trial three participants with tetraplegia were able to navigate through commonly used programs such as email, chat, …