China’s brain-computer interface industry is growing fast, and the newest company to emerge from the country is aiming to access the brain without the use of invasive implants. Gestala, newly founded ...

That energy marked the Brain Storm BCI Hackathon, a two-day event held over the weekend that transformed the Microsoft New England Research and Development Center in Cambridge into a temporary lab. As ...

OpenAI is continuing its push into healthcare by investing in Merge Labs, a brain-computer interface startup co-founded by its CEO, Sam Altman. Merge Labs is a new competitor to Elon Musk’s Neuralink, ...

OpenAI (OPENAI) announced on Thursday that it has invested in brain computer interface startup Merge Labs, which includes OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as an investor. Brain computer interfaces, or BCIs, ...

Medtronic has partnered with Precision Neuroscience to pair a brain computer interface with its neurosurgical platform. The agreement, which the companies disclosed Monday, supports co-development of ...

ANN ARBOR, MI -- One of the first brain-computer interface clinics in the country has opened in Ann Arbor. University of Michigan Health opened its clinic to patients with severe motor and speech ...

Neuralink plans to begin high-volume production and fully automate surgical procedures for its brain-computer interface devices by 2026. The company, which started human trials in 2024, aims to assist ...

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 ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

Brain–computer interfaces are beginning to truly "understand" Chinese. The INSIDE Institute for NeuroAI, in collaboration with Huashan Hospital affiliated with Fudan University, the National Center ...

They’re especially useful for communicating with people who’ve lost the ability to speak or move their body. At the extreme, one brain-computer interface prototype can decipher imagined sentences, and ...