The hardware isn't new, but a UC Davis research team's machine learning-powered method of translating brain activity in an ALS patient into sentences with 92% accuracy is ...

A recent study published in Nature Medicine provides evidence that a specialized brain implant can allow a person with severe ...

Casey Harrell uses his implants to talk to friends and family, read to his young daughter, and perform his job.

For the past six years, Casey Harrell’s life has felt like a slow-motion car crash. At 42, he began to lose his voice to the ...

The country wants to become a global leader in brain implants. Strong government support is expected to help accelerate that ...

An ALS patient has been using a brain-computer interface daily at home for almost two years. The study provides important ...

On Sunday’s episode of The Excerpt podcast: Brain-computer interfaces promise breakthroughs in restoring lost function and beyond. But they also raise ethical and societal questions about the linking ...

At the boundaries of systems neuroscience and engineering sits neuroengineering. A field that has brought advances in neurotechnology with life-changing implications for patients affected by nervous ...

A new study demonstrates that a person with severe paralysis caused by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) can use a brain-computer interface (BCI) at home to communicate, work and interact with the ...

Everyone – ourselves included – is talking about AI these days, for good reason. AI models now draft legal contracts, design chips, code software, edit videos, discover drugs, even run autonomous labs ...

When a new technology shows promise, performance-wise and commercially, innovation does not stop. To the contrary, it gathers pace. New medical devices typically emerge from competing groups of ...

Elon Musk is a big idea kind of guy. The billionaire businessman is behind the electric car manufacturer Tesla as well as the space exploration company, SpaceX. Musk’s newest big idea is Neuralink, a ...