Neuroscientists have taken us one step closer to an Avatar-like world after demonstrating a brain-to-spinal-cord interface that allowed a “master” monkey to remotely control the hand movement of an ...

This week, Neuralink, a company founded by Elon Musk that specialises in neural interface technology, unveiled a fairly astonishing example of its work. In a video released Thursday, the company ...

You may have heard about a monkey controlling a robot arm that was in the news a week or two ago. It’s a pretty incredible story (albeit one that we reported on in 2003, 2005 and 2007). In the above ...

Monkeys can control a robot arm as naturally as their own limbs using only brain signals, a pioneering experiment has shown. The macaque monkeys could reach and grasp with the same precision as their ...

A monkey controlling the hand of its unconscious cage-mate with its thoughts may sound like animal voodoo, but it is a step towards returning movement to people with spinal cord injuries. The hope is ...

While it has long been known that humans and other primates consciously control their brain activity in order to produce and regulate movement, recent studies of ADHD patients and others revealed that ...

The results, published this week (February 17) in Nature Communications, could provide insight for how thoughts might be translated into movement of paralyzed patients. “This work in primates shows ...