Designing Brain-Computer Interfaces w/ Conor Russomanno
BONUS | The Royal Society #02
Listen on Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | YouTube | SoundCloud | Goodpods | CastBox | RSS Feed
Bonus episode recorded in-person at The Royal Society Neural Interfaces Summit in September 2023.
Summary
Founder & CEO of OpenBCI Conor Russomanno shares his thoughts on what neurotechnology can teach us about being human, the ethical challenges of designing devices to measure brain activity, and the advantages of open-source brain-computer interfaces.
Guest Bio
Conor Russomanno is the founder and CEO of OpenBCI, a company working to build ethical brain-computer interfaces. He became fascinated with the relationship between the human brain and mind after suffering concussions playing college football and rugby. While pursuing an MFA in Design & Technology at Parsons School of Design, he spent two years creating DIY brain-sensing headsets and neuro-interactive games, animations and stories. In 2013, he began work on what would later become OpenBCI, which has since designed and distributed more than 40,000 tools for neuroscience to more than 100 countries around the world. One of Russomanno's leading innovations is the award-winning Galea headset, a hardware and software platform that merges next-generation biometrics with mixed reality.
Russomanno's work has been featured in media outlets such as Bloomberg, Scientific American and Wired. He was recognized in the Forbes "30 Under 30" in 2018 and has served as an adjunct professor and research affiliate at Parsons, NYU and MIT.
Transcript
Coming Soon
Credits
If you enjoyed listening to this episode of the FUTURES Podcast you can help support the show by doing the following:
Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | YouTube | SoundCloud | Goodpods | CastBox | RSS Feed
Write us a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify
Subscribe to our mailing list through Substack
Producer & Host: Luke Robert Mason
Assistant Audio Editor: Ramzan Bashir
Transcription: Beth Colquhoun
Join the conversation on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter at @FUTURESPodcast
Follow Luke Robert Mason on Twitter at @LukeRobertMason
Subscribe & Support the Podcast at http://futurespodcast.net
