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November 24, 2024

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Wearable Ultrasound Tech for Muscle Monitoring Opens New Possibilities in Healthcare and Human-Machine Interfaces

Oct. 31, 2024 — Researchers have developed a compact, wearable ultrasound device that monitors muscle activity. Attachable to the skin with an adhesive and powered by a small battery, the device wirelessly captures ...

Controlling Prosthetic Hands More Precisely by the Power of Thought

Oct. 17, 2024 — Researchers have developed a novel training protocol for brain-computer interfaces in a study with rhesus monkeys. The method enables precise control of prosthetic hands using signals from the brain alone. Researchers were able to show that the ...

New Breakthrough Helps Free Up Space for Robots to 'Think', Say Scientists

Oct. 8, 2024 — Engineers have worked out how to give robots complex instructions without electricity, which could free up more space in the robotic 'brain' for them to 'think'. Mimicking how some parts of the human body work, researchers have transmitted a series ...

Simulation Mimics How the Brain Grows Neurons, Paving the Way for Future Disease Treatments

Oct. 10, 2024 — A new computer simulation of how our brains develop and grow neurons has been built. Along with improving our understanding of how the brain works, researchers hope that the models will contribute to ...

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Ultra-Sensitive Electronic Skin Modeled After the Human Brain

Oct. 25, 2024 — Researchers have successfully developed an ultra-sensitive pressure sensor for electronic skin modeled after the nervous system in the human brain. This technology is applicable to future devices, ...

Modeling the Minutia of Motor Manipulation With AI

Oct. 1, 2024 — Scientists have developed an AI-driven approach that significantly advances our understanding of the hand's complex motor functions. The team used a creative machine learning strategy that combined ...

Researchers Combine the Power of AI and the Connectome to Predict Brain Cell Activity

Sep. 11, 2024 — With maps of the connections between neurons and artificial intelligence methods, researchers can now do what they never thought possible: predict ...

New AI Can ID Brain Patterns Related to Specific Behavior

Sep. 9, 2024 — Scientists have developed a new AI algorithm that can separate brain patterns related to a particular behavior. This work promises to improve brain-computer interfaces and aid with the discovery of ...

Cutting-Edge Algorithm Improves Intracranial EEG Accuracy to Improve Future Patient Care

Aug. 27, 2024 — A research team evaluated the reliability of human experts in comparison to an automated algorithm in assessing the quality of intracranial ...

New Brain-Computer Interface Allows Man With ALS to 'Speak' Again

Aug. 14, 2024 — A new brain-computer interface translates brain signals into speech with up to 97 percent accuracy. Researchers implanted sensors in the brain of a man with severely impaired speech due to ...

A New Neural Network Makes Decisions Like a Human Would

July 15, 2024 — Researchers are training neural networks to make decisions more like humans would. This science of human decision-making is only just being applied to machine learning, but developing a neural ...

A Prosthesis Driven by the Nervous System Helps People With Amputation Walk Naturally

July 1, 2024 — With a new surgical intervention and neuroprosthetic interface, researchers restored a natural walking gait in people with amputations below the ...

Next Platform for Brain-Inspired Computing

June 25, 2024 — Computers have come so far in terms of their power and potential, rivaling and even eclipsing human brains in their ability to store and crunch data, make predictions and communicate. But there is ...

Fruit Fly Brain Shows How Simple Commands Turn Into Complex Behaviors

June 5, 2024 — Researchers have discovered how networks of neurons in fruit flies transform simple brain signals into coordinated actions. This sheds light on the neural mechanisms underlying complex behaviors for ...

Researchers Create Realistic Virtual Rodent

June 11, 2024 — To help probe the mystery of how brains control movement, scientists have created a virtual rat with an artificial brain that can move around just like a real rodent. The researchers found that ...

Trash-Sorting Robot Mimics Complex Human Sense of Touch

June 11, 2024 — Researchers are breaking through the difficulties of robotic recognition of various common, yet complex, items. Their layered sensor is equipped with material detection at the surface and pressure ...

People Feel More Connected to 'Tweezer-Like' Bionic Tools That Don't Resemble Human Hands

June 6, 2024 — Some say the next step in human evolution will be the integration of technology with flesh. Now, researchers have used virtual reality to test whether humans can feel embodiment -- the sense that ...

Babies Use 'Helpless' Infant Period to Learn Powerful Foundation Models, Just Like ChatGPT

June 5, 2024 — Babies' brains are not as immature as previously thought, rather they are using the period of postnatal 'helplessness' to learn powerful foundation models similar to those underpinning ...

Research Finds Improving AI Large Language Models Helps Better Align With Human Brain Activity

May 28, 2024 — With generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) transforming the social interaction landscape in recent years, large language models (LLMs), which use deep-learning algorithms to train GenAI ...

New AI Accurately Predicts Fly Behavior

May 22, 2024 — Researchers trained an AI model to accurately predict male fruit flies' courtship behavior in response to any sight of a female. This breakthrough offers new insight into how the brain processes ...

Why Getting in Touch With Our 'Gerbil Brain' Could Help Machines Listen Better

May 7, 2024 — Researchers have debunked a 75-year-old theory about how humans determine where sounds are coming from, and it could unlock the secret to creating a next generation of more adaptable and efficient ...

When Thoughts Flow in One Direction

Apr. 18, 2024 — Contrary to previous assumptions, nerve cells in the human neocortex are wired differently than in mice. The study found that human neurons communicate in one direction, while in mice, signals tend ...

Artificial Nanofluidic Synapses Can Store Computational Memory

Mar. 25, 2024 — In a step toward nanofluidic-based neuromorphic -- or brain-inspired -- computing, engineers have succeeded in executing a logic operation by connecting two chips that use ions, rather than ...

Brain-Inspired Wireless System to Gather Data from Salt-Sized Sensors

Mar. 19, 2024 — In a new study, researchers describe a novel approach for a wireless communication network that can efficiently transmit, receive and decode data from thousands of microelectronic chips that are each ...

Robot Trained to Read Braille at Twice the Speed of Humans

Jan. 29, 2024 — Researchers have developed a robotic sensor that incorporates artificial intelligence techniques to read braille at speeds roughly double that of most human ...

A Long-Lasting Neural Probe

Jan. 26, 2024 — An interdisciplinary team of researchers has developed a soft implantable device with dozens of sensors that can record single-neuron activity in the brain stably for ...

Transparent Brain Implant Can Read Deep Neural Activity from the Surface

Jan. 11, 2024 — Researchers have developed a neural implant that provides information about activity deep inside the brain while sitting on its surface. The implant is made up of a thin, transparent and flexible ...

Cognitive Strategies for Augmenting the Body With a Wearable, Robotic Arm

Dec. 13, 2023 — Scientists show that breathing may be used to control a wearable extra robotic arm in healthy individuals, without hindering control of other parts of the ...

Deep Neural Networks Show Promise as Models of Human Hearing

Dec. 13, 2023 — In the largest study yet of deep neural networks trained to perform auditory tasks, researchers found most of these models generate internal representations that share properties of representations ...

Artificial Intelligence Makes Gripping More Intuitive

Dec. 5, 2023 — Artificial hands can be operated via app or with sensors placed in the muscles of the forearm. New research shows: a better understanding of muscle activity patterns in the forearm supports a more ...

Scientists Use A.I.-Generated Images to Map Visual Functions in the Brain

Nov. 30, 2023 — Researchers have demonstrated the use of AI-selected natural images and AI-generated synthetic images as neuroscientific tools for probing the visual processing areas of the brain. The goal is to ...

Brain Implant May Enable Communication from Thoughts Alone

Nov. 6, 2023 — A speech prosthetic developed by a collaborative team of neuroscientists, neurosurgeons and engineers can translate a person's brain signals into what they're trying to say. The new ...

Nanowire 'Brain' Network Learns and Remembers 'on the Fly'

Nov. 1, 2023 — Like a collection of 'Pick Up Sticks', this neural network has passed a critical step for developing machine intelligence. For the first time, a physical neural network has successfully ...

Adaptive Optical Neural Network Connects Thousands of Artificial Neurons

Oct. 23, 2023 — Physicists working with computer specialists have developed a so-called event-based architecture, using photonic processors. In a similar way to the brain, this makes possible the continuous ...