Welcome to the CSNE

Over the last decade, the field of neural engineering has demonstrated to the world that a computer cursor, a wheelchair, or a simple prosthetic limb can be controlled using direct brain-machine and brain-computer neural signals.  Future technologies that allow such accomplishments will enable versatile and highly complex interactions with sophisticated environments.

Intelligent systems and robots seek to sense and move like biological systems, and devices implanted in or interfaced with neural systems attempt to process neural data robustly, safely, and in a functionally meaningful way. Doing so requires a critical ingredient: a novel, neural-inspired approach based on a deep understanding of how biological systems acquire and process information. This is the focus of the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE).