Are we getting closer to the plot of "Planet of the Apes?" Scientists have designed a new wireless brain-machine interface (BMI) that gives monkeys the ability to control a wheelchair using just their ...

This a motorized wheelchair is so simple, even a monkey can drive it. In another step forward for the field of Brain-Machine-Interactions (BMI), researchers from Duke University's Medical Center have ...

For people with severe physical disabilities, such as spinal cord injury, quadriplegia and hemiplegia or amputation, current technology for controlling a wheelchair or mobility scooter is wholly ...

A mind-controlled wheelchair that translates brain signals into wheel movements brings hope to more than 5.4 million Americans with motor disabilities. The technology, created by researchers at The ...

Quadriplegics may gain a new degree of freedom via their tongues, if a new control system becomes widely available. The new system uses that famously strong, agile and sensitive muscle, the tongue, to ...