Inverse
By Claire Maldarelli
January 31, 2023
TOM OXLEY REMEMBERS THE MOMENT HIS ENTIRE CAREER TRAJECTORY TURNED.
It was in 2006, and an article in Nature had just been published describing the first time a brain-computer interface was successfully implanted and used in a human being.
“A patient who’d had a stroke moved a robotic limb and fed herself,” he recalls to Inverse as we sit in his office inside New York’s Brooklyn Navy Yard, overlooking the East River. “And it just opened up my mind with possibilities.”