Here Are the Major Advances in Brain Implants That Happened in 2020

Scientists moved closer to linking the human brain to computers

Emily Mullin
Future Human
Published in
7 min readDec 22, 2020

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For decades, scientists have been trying to forge a direct connection from the human brain to external devices to allow people to control machines with their minds. And over the years, there’s been incremental success. Known as brain-computer…

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Emily Mullin
Future Human

Former staff writer at Medium, where I covered biotech, genetics, and Covid-19 for OneZero, Future Human, Elemental, and the Coronavirus Blog.