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Wireless brain signals

  • Writer: ECL
    ECL
  • May 20, 2021
  • 1 min read

Updated: Jul 29, 2021

In a breakthrough for people with paralysis, scientists at Brown University in the US have devised a system that can, for the first time, transmit brain signals to a computer wirelessly.


A clinical trial of BrainGate, a small transmitter that connects to the motor cortex of users' brains, allowed participants to control a tablet computer with similar typing speeds and accuracy as they achieved with wired systems, but without being tethered to their equipment.


The Week, 10 April 2021

The BrainGate transmitter

 

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