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Muscle Implants Could Allow Mind-Controlled Prosthetics—No Brain Surgery Required
Alex Smith was 11 years old when he lost his right arm in 2003. A drunk driver operating…
Neuralink Plans to Test Whether Its Brain Implant Can Control a Robotic Arm
Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink announced on Tuesday that it is launching a study to test its…
A Neuralink Rival Says Its Eye Implant Restored Vision in Blind People
One of these, called the Argus II, was approved for commercial use in Europe in 2011 and in…
An Ultrathin Graphene Brain Implant Was Just Tested in a Person
In 2004, Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov at the University of Manchester in England achieved a breakthrough when…
I Tried These Brain-Tracking Headphones That Claim to Improve Focus
One afternoon I was using the device for a little over an hour when I heard a voice…
This Brain Implant Lets People Control Amazon Alexa With Their Minds
“It’s pretty exciting and freeing to keep my independence,” Mark says. “Some days can be more challenging, especially…
Elon Musk’s Neuralink Had a Brain Implant Setback. It May Come Down to Design
Rather than building a device from the ground up, Synchron and Paradromics have taken inspiration from previous medical…
China Has a Controversial Plan for Brain-Computer Interfaces
At a tech forum in Beijing last week, a Chinese company unveiled a “homegrown” brain-computer interface that allowed…
We Finally Know Where Neuralink’s Brain Implant Trial Is Happening
Elon Musk’s brain-implant company Neuralink has chosen the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona, as the initial study…
The Next Frontier for Brain Implants Is Artificial Vision
Brian Bussard has 25 tiny chips in his brain. They were installed in February 2022 as part of…