As a part of a study testing out a new type of implanted brain-computer interface (BCI), three rhesus monkeys controlled ...

Restoring both walking and sensation to patients with paraplegia is an ambitious goal—but a team of researchers from the Keck ...

Using first-person wearable cameras, Maxi Heitmayer records how people really use their devices.  “From my experience of ...

Smart rings and watches are designed to be small, compact, and comfortable. One brain wearable company, Neurable, has ...

As artificial intelligence makes many tasks easier, the human work of cajoling, arm-twisting and reassuring appears to be ...

Human activity is increasingly extending into environments marked by isolation, confinement, and extreme conditions, including long-duration space missions, polar research stations, intensive care ...

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What just happened? Following news that its human brain cell-powered computer can run Doom, Australian biotech startup Cortical Labs has announced it is working on two small data centers running on ...

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First look: Australian biotech startup Cortical Labs has crossed another boundary in biological computing. Its latest hardware platform, the CL1, uses living human neurons as the core of a fully ...

A clump of human brain cells can play the classic computer game Doom. While its performance is not up to par with humans, experts say it brings biological computers a step closer to useful real-world ...

Human performance, psychological well-being, and behavioral adaptation in isolated, confined, and extreme (ICE) environments—such as intensive care units, remote healthcare settings, disaster zones, ...