Now, a group of paralyzed volunteers has utilized the technology to perform various functions on a tablet. At the heart of the BrainGate system is a silicon chip that's about the size of a baby ...

BrainGate researchers demonstrated human use of a wireless transmitter capable of delivering high-bandwidth neural signals. Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are an emerging assistive technology ...

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 ...

The big difference, though, is that BrainGate is a very mature technology: The first BrainGate chip was implanted in a human back in 2004, after years of in-monkey testing -- while the FES version ...

Over the past twenty years, neuroscientists have been quietly building a revolutionary technology called BrainGate that wirelessly connects the human mind to computers and it just hit the world stage.

A clinical trial of the BrainGate technology involved a small transmitter that connects to a person’s brain motor cortex. Trial participants with paralysis used the system to control a tablet ...

The $1 million Moshe Mirilashvili Memorial Fund Breakthrough Research and Innovation in Neurotechnology Prize was awarded to BrainGate researchers for ... and Professor of Engineering Arto Nurmikko at ...

BrainGate is an interdisciplinary research team involving ... With a focus on practical applications and reliability, the team aims to develop assistive BCI technology to restore independence and ...

"The goals of BrainGate is to create technology that will allow severely disabled individuals - including those with traumatic spinal cord injury and loss of limbs - to communicate and control ...