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When you hear "brain-computer interface," you probably picture surgery, wires and a chip in your head. Now picture something quieter. No implant. No incision. Just sound waves directed at the brain.

While Elon Musk’s Neuralink likes to say it’s “pioneering” brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), China’s BCI industry is already quietly moving from research to scale. A new wave of startups is racing to ...

A student at the robotic department of The University of Texas Austin shows a mind controlled fingers exoskeleton at ITU’s AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva, Switzerland, May 31, 2024 (Keystone ...

Scientists already know about the therapeutic uses for focused ultrasound, especially for certain neurological disease like Parkinson’s. Now, AI companies are forming or investing in start-ups that ...

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disorder, characterized by progressive cognitive decline and memory impairment with an insidious and irreversible pathological process. As ...

Last summer, a team of researchers reported using a brain-computer interface to detect words people with paralysis imagined saying, even without them physically attempting to speak. They also found ...

Michigan Medicine opened the Brain-Computer Interface Clinic — one of the first of its kind in the nation — on Dec. 16, 2025 to provide neurological assessments for patients with speech and motor ...

Looking back on my lifelong history of learning experiences, the ones that I would rank as most effective and memorable were the ones in which the instructor truly saw me, understood my motivations ...

OpenAI is continuing its push into healthcare by investing in Merge Labs, a brain-computer interface startup co-founded by its CEO, Sam Altman. Merge Labs is a new competitor to Elon Musk’s Neuralink, ...

OpenAI Group PBC has invested in Merge Labs Inc., a startup developing hardware that will enable users to control computers with their thoughts. Merge Labs is building a brain-computer interface, or ...