{"id":118888,"date":"2021-01-26T08:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T16:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/brain-to-brain-communication-demo-receives-darpa-funding"},"modified":"2021-01-26T08:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T16:22:17","slug":"brain-to-brain-communication-demo-receives-darpa-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/brain-to-brain-communication-demo-receives-darpa-funding","title":{"rendered":"Brain-to-brain communication demo receives DARPA funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cL3e8tC8TwE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>HOUSTON \u2014 (Jan. 252021) \u2014 Wireless communication directly between brains is one step closer to reality thanks to $8 million in Department of Defense follow-up funding for Rice University neuroengineers.<\/p>\n<p>The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which funded the team\u2019s proof-of-principle research toward a wireless brain link in 2018, has asked for a preclinical demonstration of the technology that could set the stage for human tests as early as 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe started this in a very exploratory phase,\u201d said Rice\u2019s Jacob Robinson, lead investigator on the MOANA Project, which ultimately hopes to create a dual-function, wireless headset capable of both \u201creading\u201d and \u201cwriting\u201d brain activity to help restore lost sensory function, all without the need for surgery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON \u2014 (Jan. 252021) \u2014 Wireless communication directly between brains is one step closer to reality thanks to $8 million in Department of Defense follow-up funding for Rice University neuroengineers. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which funded the team\u2019s proof-of-principle research toward a wireless brain link in 2018, has asked for a preclinical [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}