brain-computer interfaces

We Finally Know Where Neuralink’s Brain Implant Trial Is Happening

Brendan Martin

Elon Musk’s brain-implant company Neuralink has chosen the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona, as the initial study site to ...

Watch Neuralink’s First Human Subject Demonstrate His Brain-Computer Interface

Brendan Martin

On Wednesday, Neuralink introduced the first human subject to receive the company’s brain implant, a 29-year-old man who has been ...

Several companies are testing brain implants – why is there so much attention swirling around Neuralink? Two professors unpack the ethical issues

Daisy Hips

Putting a computer inside someone’s brain used to feel like the edge of science fiction. Today, it’s a reality. Academic ...

Decades of research and lofty ambitions to meld minds with computers

Daisy Hips

It wasn’t the first tiny device to be implanted in a human brain. Still, Elon Musk’s announcement on Monday turned ...

New neurotechnology is blurring the lines around mental privacy − but are new human rights the answer?

Daisy Hips

Neurotechnologies – devices that interact directly with the brain or nervous system – were once dismissed as the stuff of ...