Brandon Patterson’s wildest dream for the brain-computer interface is to someday be able to drive his wheelchair with his mind, like Professor X in the X-Men comics.

Startups have developed chips that allow people to control machines with their thoughts. Billionaires are betting these brain ...

Brain-computer interface (BCI) technology is advancing on two fronts in 2026: consumer-focused EEG devices like Neurable’s licensed headset tech, and clinical implants from companies securing FDA ...

Elon Musk co-founded Neuralink in 2016 to develop brain-machine interfaces. The first product — the N1 implant — focuses on allowing patients with paralysis to control computer cursors with their mind ...

An advanced brain-computer interface (BCI) that can translate brain signals into speech with up to 97% accuracy, has restored the speech of a man with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). "Previous ...

Rodney Gorham loves fast, flashy cars: His WhatsApp profile picture is a bright yellow Corvette Stingray. “I don’t get to drive it anymore,” Gorham told STAT in a text. Gorham, a 63-year-old living in ...

Brandon Patterson has been through a lot in the nine years since rolling a Jeep left him paralyzed. Now he's on the leading edge of science.

June 2 (UPI) --Paradromics, a competitor of Neuralink, announced Monday it safely implanted a brain-computer interface into a human patient and recorded neural activity, before removing it 10 minutes ...

On Sunday’s episode of The Excerpt podcast: Brain-computer interfaces promise breakthroughs in restoring lost function and beyond. But they also raise ethical and societal questions about the linking ...

In the first four months of 2026, three brain-computer interface companies earned FDA Breakthrough Device Designation, a ...

Brain-computer interfaces are a groundbreaking technology that can help paralyzed people regain functions they’ve lost, like moving a hand. These devices record signals from the brain and decipher the ...