I was first exposed to a cutting-edge BCI technology, known as BrainGate, in the late 1990s while studying for a Ph.D. at Brown University and have watched its steady progression ever since.

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 Braingate2 team, however, is developing a wireless interface. Sensors attached to the neurons in your brain would be implanted as with the original Braingate technology. Now, however, power, and ...

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 ...

This new technology is actually translating brain ... In a breakthrough clinical trial called "BrainGate 2", a research team directed by Dr. Leigh Hochberg at Massachusetts General Hospital ...

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 ...

But Stibel doesn’t think the world is ready for his technology, because of the potential for abuse. So he’s giving away the company. Stibel is donating BrainGate to his alma mater, Tufts ...

A new study in Science Translational Medicine describes three software innovations that substantially improved the user experience and performance of the BrainGate* (http ... and test a practical BCI ...