https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_(neurotechnology_company)

The company was founded in 2016 by Bryan Johnson, who backed it with a personal investment of $100 million. In February 2017, Kernel purchased certain neurotechnology assets from Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Kendall Research Systems (KRS), a company founded by Christian Wentz that was developing an interface to capture and record neural data.

Kernel, which seeks to use knowledge gained from understanding basic brain functions to develop clinical solutions for neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders, is advised by a team including neuroscientists Ed Boyden and György Buzsáki and electrical engineer Ken Shepard. Johnson, who has said the future of humanity will be a combination of human and artificial intelligence, says Kernel's objective is "to read and write the underlying functions of the brain."

Kernel is one of several companies researching links between the human brain and computers, including Neuralink, founded by Elon Musk, and Facebook.

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We are a team of neuroscientists, physicists and engineers driven by the belief that exploring the mind is the most important and consequential opportunity of this century.

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In the last century, we greatly expanded the notion of what it means to be human; innovations in science and technology brought us to the moon, laid the foundation of the Internet, and greatly expanded lifespans.

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We are building a non-invasive mind/body/machine interface (MBMI) to improve, evolve and extend human cognition.

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