Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface (BCI) company is entering its next phase of experiments: seeing if patients can move a robotic arm using their minds. In a statement posted on X-formerly Twitter — ...

If you want to control a robot with your mind — and really, who doesn’t? — you currently have two options. You can get a brain implant, in which case your control over the robot will be smooth and ...

There are several mechanical contraptions out there that use gesture-control to do what they do. But, just as with anything else, there's always room for some sort of improvement. This new mechanical ...

You’ve built the perfect robotic arm. How do you drive it? If you are [angrymop] you interface a 3D mouse from 3DConnexion via a few microcontroller boards. The Spacenavigator mouse is a staple ...

Plenty of busy people have joked about needing an extra set of hands to juggle all their tasks, and now it just might be possible. Mind-controlled prosthetic limbs have already been developed for ...

The performance of a brain-machine interface designed to help paralyzed subjects move objects with their thoughts is improved with the addition of a robotic arm providing sensory feedback, a new study ...

Researchers have developed a robotic arm that can be controlled using gaze and the movement of the diaphragm during breathing. The arm, which is designed to be used as an extra limb rather than a ...

Nathan Copeland was 18 years old when he was paralyzed by a car accident in 2004. He lost his ability to move and feel most of his body, although he does retain a bit of sensation in his wrists and a ...

Using BrainGate, the world's most advanced brain-computer interface, a woman with quadriplegia has used a mind-controlled robot arm to serve herself coffee -- an act she hasn't been able to perform ...

Of all the difficulties posed by being paralyzed from the neck down, not being able to raise a toast ranks pretty low. But some of the smallest joys in life are the sweetest—and sipping a beer can be ...

With all the doom and gloom over the inevitable robot apocalypse, we’ve at least been able to take solace in the fact that we’ll see them coming—until today. Researchers from Northwestern University ...

A paralyzed woman who was one of the first people to control a robotic arm using thought alone has finished a two-year run on a high note — by beating her brother at rock-paper-scissors. Jan ...