In a post on LinkedIn, the company highlighted the development conducted by Stanford University and the University of Michigan. Researchers developed “a high-performance” BCI that allows intuitive, finger-based control of a virtual quadcopter using only thought.

The research team of Matthew Willsey, Nishal Shah, Donald Avansino, Nick Hahn, Ryan Jamiolkowski, Foram Kamdar, Leigh Hochberg, Francis Willett and Jaimie Henderson published their work in Nature.

According to Blackrock Neurotech, the system decodes both vertical and horizontal movements across the thumb, index-middle and ring-small finger groups. This enables continuous, four-degree-of-freedom control. The company says this doubles prior systems’ functionality and achieves a six-fold improvement over EEG-based methods.