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Neurotechnology and human–machine interaction

Status: Exploratory

A long-term interest, approached slowly and in the open.

Early, non-invasive research into how people and machines can communicate — starting with signal visualisation and accessibility-oriented interfaces, not medical devices.

01Roadmap

A staged path, with gates.

Each stage depends on the one before it. Moving between stages requires evidence, ethics review and, where it applies, regulatory approval — none of which is assumed.

Roadmap diagram: four stages separated by three gates. Stage 1 is current and marked “we are here”; progress reaches the first gate and stops. Stage 4 is drawn dashed because it may never be reached.
Status diagramFour stages separated by gates. Only Stage 1 is active. Stage 4 is drawn dashed: it may never be reached.
  1. Stage 1 · current

    Foundations

    Status: Concept

    Literature review, software architecture, ethics framework, simulation and technical feasibility.

  2. Stage 2

    Non-invasive experimentation

    Status: Concept

    EEG datasets or appropriately sourced non-invasive equipment, signal processing, and controlled experiments with informed consent and privacy protection.

  3. Stage 3

    Human–machine interaction prototypes

    Status: Concept

    Narrowly defined, non-clinical interaction experiments with documented limitations and safety controls.

  4. Stage 4

    Advanced neurotechnology research

    Status: Exploratory

    Long-term exploration of more advanced brain–computer interfaces — subject to scientific feasibility, specialist partnerships, funding, applicable approvals and independent safety assessment.

02Questions

What we would study first.

  • Non-invasive EEG research using public datasets first
  • Brain-signal visualisation and exploration tools
  • Brain–computer interface concepts and their limits
  • Human–machine interaction design
  • Signal processing and machine-learning experimentation
  • Accessibility-oriented interfaces
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Still frame

Concept visualizationSignal waveforms around a contour head, animated. Not real brain data, not a device, not a photograph.
The Companion humanoid concept turning its head, raising an arm and opening its hand
Mechanism study · real-time 3DSupervision needs a body a person can read. The Companion concept turns its head to a target, raises an arm, opens its hand and gestures finger by finger, then returns to rest — slow enough to be checked, as an interface a person approves would need to be.

03Safeguards

What is true now, and what we will not claim.

  • Not a medical device

    Nothing here diagnoses, treats or monitors any condition, and nothing claims to decode thoughts.

  • Consent and privacy

    Any future study would require informed consent, ethics review and strict data protection. This website collects no EEG, health or biometric data.

  • Implantable systems

    Implantable neurotechnology is not a Moonpie Robotics product or capability, and is not being developed.

  • Regulation

    Future work may fall under medical-device, research-ethics and data-protection regulation in each jurisdiction where it takes place.

About the wider field

Companies such as Neuralink show where the long-term field may go. They are a reference point for the field only; Moonpie Robotics has no affiliation with them and claims no comparable capability.

Academic partnerships

Working on this ethically? Talk to us.

Universities and labs interested in joint, ethically reviewed study can reach the Moonpie Software Labs team through the site's contact form.

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