The potential of Brain-Machine Interface technology has Silicon Valley excited, and ethicists worried
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Experimentation in the field of brain-machine interfaces has so far been small scale, but big players are involved.
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Having hundreds of needles injected into your brain may sound more like a torture than a treatment.
But the process is already allowing some patients with severe paralysis to control a robotic arm by thought alone.
Brain-Machine Interface technology (BMI) is a field of science that's small and relatively new, but it has Silicon Valley brimming with excitement.