Mind Over Machines: DARPA’s N3 Program Develops Nonsurgical Brain-Computer Interfaces to Let Soldiers Control Vehicles and Robots with Thought Alone

For decades, the idea of controlling machines with our thoughts belonged firmly in science fiction. Today, that fiction is rapidly approaching reality. The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is spearheading efforts to pioneer a new paradigm in human-machine interaction: non-surgical brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) that could allow soldiers to operate drones, manage cyber defense…