More recently, research teams led by the Braingate group at Brown University and a group led by University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, both in collaborations with the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, have demonstrated further success in direct control of robotic prosthetic limbs with many degrees of freedom using direct connections to arrays of neurons in the motor cortex of patients with tetraplegia.
Eno leto zatem je profesor Jonathan Wolpaw prejel nagrado Altranske fundacije za inovacije, ker je razvil možgansko-računalniški vmesnik z elektrodami nameščenimi na površini lobanje namesto, da bi bile vstavljene direktno v možgane.