US EditionMonkeys Navigate Virtual Worlds Using Thought Alone in New BCI Study
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Belgian researchers have managed to navigate three rhesus macaques in a 3D virtual environment thanks to a brain-machine interface and artificial intelligence. Shared in mid-April 2026 in Science Advances, their experience feeds the hope of future applications to restore mobility
Monkeys Navigate Virtual Worlds Using Thought Alone in New BCI Study
University researchers at KU Leuven in Belgium have shown that monkeys can navigate complex virtual environments using a brain-computer interface (BCI) setup, which remarkably involves relatively little user training. As reported in New Scientist, three rhesus macaques were implanted with Utah array BCI devices containing 96 electrodes in each of three brain regions: the primary motor cortex and the dorsal and ventral premotor cortices. While th…
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