The dream of being able to control objects using just our minds has taken a step closer to reality after scientists released the latest results of their BrainGate trials. In two separate tests, ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. In an important step toward a medical technology that could help restore independence of people with paralysis, researchers find the ...

In recent years, a brain-computer interface (BCI) developed by the US BrainGate consortium has allowed people to control a robotic arm and to type, using only their thoughts. Now, a group of paralyzed ...

In an ongoing clinical trial, a paralyzed woman was able to reach for and sip from a drink on her own -- for the first time in nearly 15 years -- by using her thoughts to direct a robotic arm. The ...

MEDFORD, Mass. and SOMERVILLE, Mass., Sept. 10, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Tufts University, together with alumnus Jeff Stibel and his partners, today announced the donation of BrainGate, Inc. ("BrainGate") ...

For more than a decade, scientist and entrepreneur Jeff Stibel’s company BrainGate has been developing ways to connect the human brain directly to computers. But Stibel doesn’t think the world is ...

STANFORD, Calif. (KGO) -- In a recent experiment, a woman suffering from A.L.S. was able to express her thoughts by typing on a screen, not with her fingers but with her brain waves. She was able to ...

An intracortical BCI tdecodes attempted handwriting movements from neural activity in the motor cortex and translates it to text in real-time, using a recurrent neural network decoding approach. The ...

A simple click of the mouse ... it’s something most of us do hundreds, if not thousands of times a day. Thoughtless — or so it would seem. But behind the scenes, millions of neurons are firing, ...

The $1 million Moshe Mirilashvili Memorial Fund Breakthrough Research and Innovation in Neurotechnology Prize was awarded to BrainGate researchers for their creation of a brain-computer interface that ...

For more than a decade, scientist and entrepreneur Jeff Stibel’s company BrainGate has been developing ways to connect the human brain directly to computers. But Stibel doesn’t think the world is ...

MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. (September 10, 2020) -- Tufts University, together with alumnus Jeff Stibel and his partners, today announced the donation of BrainGate, Inc. ("BrainGate") and its patented ...