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

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

Brain-computer interfaces (BCI) sound like science fiction to most people. But this technology is getting real, quickly.

Paralysed people are already using brain-computer interfaces to turn their thoughts into text. But there are risks to this ...

Chinese start-up firms are supercharging their efforts to develop algorithms for brain–computer interfaces that help people ...

Brandon Patterson hasn’t moved his fingers in nine years due to a spinal cord ...

People who have lost the ability to move or speak may soon have a new option: surgically implanted devices that link the brain to a computer. More than two decades after researchers first demonstrated ...

Startups have developed chips that allow people to control machines with their thoughts. Billionaires are betting these brain-computer interfaces could become everyday consumer tech.

Surgically implanted devices that allow paralyzed people to speak can also eavesdrop on their inner monologue. That's the conclusion of a study of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) in the journal Cell.

While age-old challenges regarding the mind, self, and consciousness persist within the labyrinths of philosophy, scientists may be on the verge of solving them through empirical means, even in the ...