Momentum behind brain-computer interfaces is growing, but experts say that design innovations are needed to help them survive decades in.

BISC is an ultra-thin neural implant that creates a high-bandwidth wireless link between the brain and computers. Its tiny single-chip design packs tens of thousands of electrodes and supports ...

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 ...

China’s brain-computer interface industry is growing fast, and the newest company to emerge from the country is aiming to access the brain without the use of invasive implants. Gestala, newly founded ...

Biomedical engineer Chethan Pandarinath collaborates with neurosurgeons and scientists across the country in a massive project to help patients with ALS or stroke damage reconnect with the world.

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 has become the lead investor in Merge Labs, a new brain-computer interface research lab co-founded by Sam Altman that just raised around $250 million USD in seed funding Merge Labs is ...

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 ...

OpenAI (OPENAI) announced on Thursday that it has invested in brain computer interface startup Merge Labs, which includes OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as an investor. Brain computer interfaces, or BCIs, ...

Just when you thought the circular deals couldn’t get any more circular, OpenAI has invested in CEO Sam Altman’s brain computer interface (BCI) startup Merge Labs. Merge Labs, which defines itself as ...

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Abstract: Affective brain–computer interfaces (aBCIs) are an emerging technology that decodes brain signals—primarily electroencephalography (EEG)—to monitor and regulate emotional states in real time ...