Tim Otchy

Coverage in the NYTimes of our work:

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/s...

Excited to be part of the team moving neural interfaces into mainstream consumer use!

Request for Proposals: Motor Learning & Neuromotor Ethics | Meta Quest Blog To foster innovation in this area, and to deepen our collaboration with academia, Reality Labs’ EMG Foundational Research team is pleased to invite faculty to submit their ideas to this request for re...

Have a cool research project and need funding to get it started?

We’ve just launched a request for research proposals focused on motor learning and neuromotor ethics! Up to $150k available to each academic awardee. Proposals due Sept 1, 2025.

www.meta.com/blog/reality...

A generic non-invasive neuromotor interface for human-computer interaction - Nature A high-bandwidth neuromotor interface offers performant out-of-the-box generalization across people.

New paper from our group out today!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).

This is the way…

Schwarzenegger winning seemed like the most embarrassing thing that would ever happen in politics at the time and now he’s to the left of every elected Republican and a few Democrats and just makes videos going “young men, my fadda was a Nazi and he was a contemptible loosah”

I think an American flag created entirely by black men at the Superbowl is one of the best pieces of art I've seen in my lifetime. I hope it actually killed some folks. And I hope it finally closes the fucking book on the argument that we shouldn't use the flag to fight the God damned fascists.

We're hiring!

Join Meta Reality Lab's EMG Wristband foundational research team! ⚡️

We're seeking research scientists with systems neuro/ML/AI/BCI/EE backgrounds, with skills on a spectrum from modeling to experimental expertise, as well as generalists who excel in both areas.

AOC: I don’t care what Elon Musk is doing behind the presidential seal, but in this country we hate Nazis. Kind of like a foundational defining thing. Two of the foundational things about American history is that we beat the confederates and we beat the Nazis.

Advancing Neuromotor Interfaces by Open Sourcing Surface Electromyography (sEMG) Datasets for Pose Estimation and Surface Typing We’re releasing emg2qwerty and emg2pose—two large datasets and benchmarks for sEMG-based typing and pose estimation, as part of the NeurIPS 2024 Datasets and Benchmarks track.

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We just open-sourced two large wrist electromyography (EMG) datasets - one towards typing without a keyboard and the other for predicting hand poses - with baselines.

We believe these will help advance research into making high bandwidth non-invasive neuromotor interfaces a reality!