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What if the body could answer intention again?

Communication, movement, access and the individual lives behind measured technical results.

These are editorial connections, not a chain of causation or a shared score of progress.

The conversation continues.

Meet Casey Harrell through the study and its home-use continuation. Same person; a different setting.

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The evidence so far

DISCOVERY

A voice in everyday life.

Casey Harrell used a brain–computer interface at home to communicate and operate his computer without researchers present.

Source published 2026-06-15 · Emerging
DISCOVERY

A care robot is trained before it helps.

NVIDIA reports that Japan's Moonshot research program uses simulation and NVIDIA hardware in AIREC elder-care robot research.

Source published 2026-01-08 · Experimental
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Twelve millimetres, or three centimetres.

A breast cancer found by imaging is typically about 12 mm across. One found by a hand — a woman's own, or a clinician's — is typically about 21 mm. In India, where almost no one is screened, four out of five recorded tumours are already 3 cm or larger when they are found.

Source published 2025-12-11 · Emerging
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A walk that chooses what to describe.

VIPTour used the FocusFormer model and portable consumer devices to prioritize visual information for blind and low-vision visitors exploring unfamiliar environments, supporting exploration, recollection, and sharing.

Source published 2025-06-04 · Emerging
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A screen reader that can take a follow-up question.

Google announced a rollout that let Android TalkBack users ask Gemini follow-up questions about images and about the whole screen, extending beyond one-shot image descriptions.

Source published 2025-05-15 · Deployed
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Personalizing an ablation for persistent AF

A multicenter randomized, controlled, double-blind superiority trial tested whether adding AI-detected spatio-temporal electrogram-dispersion targets to pulmonary-vein isolation improves treatment of drug-refractory persistent atrial fibrillation.

Source published 2025-02-14 · Demonstrated
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A way back to conversation.

A man with ALS used an experimental brain–computer interface to turn attempted speech into conversation.

Source published 2024-08-14 · Emerging
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Helping specialists see urgency.

Researchers demonstrated deep-learning diagnosis and referral recommendations from retinal scans.

Source published 2018-08-13 · Demonstrated

More to follow

Short source reports on announced work, early results and emerging uses.

SIGNAL · SOURCE REPORT

A small study compared four AI aids for people with vision impairment.

The study measured task completion and user experience with people who use the technology, rather than relying only on model benchmarks. Results varied by task and product.

Performance on Activities of Daily Living and User Experience When Using Artificial Intelligence by Individuals With Vision Impairment · published 2025-01-02Captured 2026-09-06 · a lead, not a verified achievement.

Casey Harrell

A participant living with ALS in the UC Davis speech neuroprosthesis study and its documented home-use continuation.

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