Nearly 20 years after neuroscientist John Donoghue placed electrodes on Matthew Nagle’s motor cortex, allowing the man with no limb movement to control objects using his thoughts, the brain-computer interface field looks dramatically different — both the people doing the research and the technologies they are creating.
Researchers like Leigh Hochberg and Eddie Chang and big-name startups such as Synchron and Paradromics have turned what was not too long ago an arcane academic interest into a cultural phenomenon. Elon Musk, in particular, has stoked public interest in the technology with avowals that Neuralink’s technology will eventually allow humans to download their brains into robots.
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