Cathy Hutchinson used a mind-controlled robotic arm to drink coffee. May 16, 2012— -- A 58-year-old woman paralyzed by a stroke was all smiles after sipping her cinnamon latte with the help of a ...

An intracortical BCI tdecodes attempted handwriting movements from neural activity in the motor cortex and translates it to text in real-time, using a recurrent neural network decoding approach. The ...

King of brings new meaning to "What will they think of next?" now that CyberKinetics have developed BrainGate, a device that allows people to control computers entirely by their thoughts. Using a ...

An investigational implanted system being developed to translate brain signals toward control of assistive devices has allowed a woman with paralysis to accurately control a computer cursor at 2.7 ...

When Matt Nagle plays Pong on his computer, people watch with amazement. He doesn't win all the games, and most of the time he plays against himself, but he doesn't use his hands or any other part of ...

STANFORD, Calif. (KGO) -- In a recent experiment, a woman suffering from A.L.S. was able to express her thoughts by typing on a screen, not with her fingers but with her brain waves. She was able to ...

Scientists around the world are working on solutions that will help people who have paralysis to lead a more normal life. With the popularity of smartphones and tablets, one of the routine tasks that ...

MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. (September 10, 2020) -- Tufts University, together with alumnus Jeff Stibel and his partners, today announced the donation of BrainGate, Inc. ("BrainGate") and its patented ...

In recent years, a brain-computer interface (BCI) developed by the US BrainGate consortium has allowed people to control a robotic arm and to type, using only their thoughts. Now, a group of paralyzed ...

"We've found through our FES work that we can stimulate the muscles in a patient's neck and produce arm movements, for example" Kirsch said. "The big problem that we've had is determining an effective ...

Researchers in Boston and at Brown University, as a part of the research project "Braingate," are using a tiny brain implant to allow severely paralyzed or "locked-in" patients to move a computer ...

Expanding the power of thought The implantable BrainGate neural interface can detect and record brain signals, allowing persons who have lost the use of arms and legs to have point-and-click control ...