Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about neuroscience and its intersection with technology. Despite the continued progress that the state of the art in ...

Scientists have grown a tiny brain-like organoid out of human stem cells, hooked it up to a computer, and demonstrated its potential as a kind of organic machine learning chip, showing it can quickly ...

(A) Illustrations of a subject wearing a virtual reality headset and the brain–machine interface. (B) The microneedle electrodes that penetrate the scalp to collect the brain’s electrical signals.