Cerebionics wants to turn human intent into commands for machines

What happened

What started as Norwegian founder Agnessa Pedersen building drawing robots as a teenager has evolved into a brain-computer interface (BCI) platform she has spent months testing and refining with users in Ukraine. Crucially, non-invasive BCI doesn't need to reproduce fine motor control to be useful — it only needs to reliably capture intent, and Pedersen is taking that proposition out of the lab and into demanding real-world environments.

Sometimes you hear about a startup doing something just so completely out of left field that you have to find out more. For me, that startup is Cerebionics .

In middle school and high school, she became deeply interested in robotics and took online courses on platforms such as Udemy to learn Python and C++. From there, she became interested in human-machine interfaces and how humans can remove the barrier between humans and machines.