Brandon Patterson’s wildest dream for the brain-computer interface is to someday be able to drive his wheelchair with his ...

Science fiction has long imagined a world where our brains interact with machines to restore and augment our abilities—think ...

A tiny brain implant now approved for human trials could help treat depression from home. The breakthrough signals a new ...

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 ...

Elon Musk co-founded Neuralink in 2016 to develop brain-machine interfaces. The first product — the N1 implant — focuses on allowing patients with paralysis to control computer cursors with their mind ...

Vernon Yuen/Getty Images In response to the tremendous clinical progress of Elon Musk’s Neuralink, investors are pouring ...

Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) come in many forms and can be non-invasive, integrated into wearable devices, or invasive, meaning they are implanted into the body to work nearer to the brain.

Mr. Deng controls an exoskeleton via brain-computer interface to display a family portrait created by himself in Nanchang, ...

An important milestone has been achieved in brain-computer interface (BCI) technology. A new peer-reviewed study published in Nature Biomedical Engineering shows how a high-performance brain-computer ...

Since then, scientists have designed and developed BCIs that have enabled people with quadriplegia to control a computer cursor, a robotic arm, and even move their own limb. Recently, a person with ...

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 ...