Brain

Neuralink, Elon Musk’s brain implant startup, quietly raises an additional $43M

Neuralink, the Elon Musk-founded company developing implantable chips that can read brain waves, has raised an additional $43 million in venture capital, according to a filing with the SEC. The filing

MIT’s tiny artificial brain chip could bring supercomputer smarts to mobile devices

Researchers at MIT have published a new paper that describes a new type of artificial brain synapse that offers performance improvements versus other existing versions, and which can be combined in vo

Elon Musk’s Neuralink looks to begin outfitting human brains with faster input and output starting next year

Neuralink, the Elon Musk-led startup that the multi-entrepreneur founded in 2017, is working on technology that’s based around “threads,” which it says can be implanted in human brai

Researchers create first mind-controlled robot arm that works well without surgery

Carnegie Mellon researchers working with peers from the University of Minnesota have made a big breakthrough in brain-computer interface (BCI) and robotic technology: They’ve developed a way for

Researchers recreate a brain, piece by piece

Researchers at the University of Tokyo have created a method for growing and connecting single neurons using geometric patterns to route the neurons more precisely, cell by cell. The article, “A

This jolly little robot gets goosebumps

Cornell researchers have made a little robot that can express its emotions through touch, sending out little spikes when it’s scared or even getting goosebumps to express delight or excitement.

BrainQ aims to cure stroke and spinal cord injuries through mind-reader tech

Israel-based BrainQ is a new neurotech startup hoping to take on brain-computer interface (BCI) companies Kernel and Neuralink. But it's early days in this industry, including for BrainQ, which plans

Curious to crack the neural code? Listen carefully

Perhaps for the first time ever, our noggins have stolen the spotlight from our hips. The media, popular culture, science and business are paying more attention to the brain than ever. Billionaires w

Google’s Tensor2Tensor makes it easier to conduct deep learning experiments

Google’s brain team is open sourcing Tensor2Tensor, a new deep learning library designed to help researchers replicate results from recent papers in the field and push the boundaries of what&#82

Humans can now move complex robot arms just by thinking

Most robotic arm systems required a very complex and very invasive brain implant… until now. Researchers at the University of Minnesota have created a new system that requires only a sexy helmet

Researchers use machine learning to pull interest signals from readers’ brain waves

How will people sift and navigate information intelligently in the future, when there's even more data being pushed at them? Information overload is a problem we struggle with now, so the need for bet

Bryan Johnson invests $100 million in Kernel to unlock the power of the human brain

Earlier this year, former Braintree founder Bryan Johnson publicly announced his plans to forge Kernel, a company with the sole purpose of building hardware and software to augment human intelligence.

Meet Brain, The AI Engine That Wants To Replace Search

Fifteen miles away from where Larry Page and Sergey Brin worked out of their first office developing the technology that would become Google, a team of eleven engineers no older than 20 are hard a

Thync Has Raised $13M To Change Your Mood With Ultrasound Waves (And Electricity)

Thync is a startup looking to give consumers another avenue to change their mental state, one which doesn't involve significantly altering your daily habits or metabolizing substances which may or may

Scientists Are Preparing To Pull The Words Out Of Your Brain

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/brain-speaks-language-microelectrode.jpg" />Get out the tinfoil hats boys, paranoia just got real. A recent article published in the "<a

Brains, brains, scanning brains

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/psychomantis.jpg" />Researchers would be wasting their time, and their patrons' money, scanning my brain. They'd quickly find nothing but

Hitachi's develops brain signal-powered remote control

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/hitachi_brain_remote_control.jpg" /> We all knew this would come one day, especially since the basic technology has been around for some

New brain machine lets you play pinball by thoughts alone

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/pinball_brain.png" /> It's one thing to develop an interface that lets you control slow-moving robots with your thoughts alone, but it's

T-minus “several months” for brainwave games

Can’t wait to play video games with your braaaaain? Well in “several months” you should be able to purchase the Emotiv EPOC. We’ve been keeping tabs on the progress of this gadget and we’re

This robot has a rat brain

Scientists in the UK (well, Reading) have developed a robot that has an actual brain. Like, the brain is made out of rat neurons. So already this robot is smarter than Biggs. The scientists, from the
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