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Monkeys navigate a virtual forest with thought alone, pushing brain-computer interfaces beyond the lab

  • April 16, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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Monkeys navigate a virtual forest with thought alone, pushing brain-computer interfaces beyond the lab
As a part of a study testing out a new type of implanted brain-computer interface (BCI), three rhesus monkeys controlled movements in a virtual reality (VR) world using only brain signals. The study, published in Science Advances, demonstrates a major step toward practical BCIs that can work outside of lab conditions.

Originally published at Phys.org

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