Neurotechnology

Neurotechnology

A robotic prosthetic arm with visible internal mechanisms, wires, and a mechanical hand. Labels such as "SFU" and "BESOM" are visible on the arm casing.
In the international competition, people with physical disabilities put state-of-the-art devices to the test as they race to complete the tasks of everyday life.
Implanting machine components into human bodies, argues one scholar, could make for a better society.
A person holding a small key in their hand.
The brain-computer interface will be tested in a six-year trial in patients with quadriplegia.
An image of a person's ear and brain.
It could perform a speech recognition task with 78% accuracy.
A person's hand is holding a piece of paper.
It has already been trialed in people and could give us a better way to analyze and stimulate the brain.
A vintage photograph capturing a couple by a turntable in black and white.
Your heart rate reveals your brain activity, which in turn can predict hit songs — and maybe stock performance, as well.
A black t-shirt featuring a picture of a man and a woman, causing brain zaps.
Synchronized activity between the hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, and thalamus plays a role in memory consolidation.
A digital art image of a human made of small white blocks.
Brain-computer interfaces could enable people with locked-in syndrome and other conditions to "speak."
Inside the metaverse, your emotions and physical responses will be monitored, and AI will use that data to influence you in real time. Is that essentially mind control?
brain zapping
The DARPA-funded memory prosthesis helps the brain retain new information.
Can electrical stimulation meaningfully substitute for natural touch during a complex task in the real world? We think so.