Yes. An NIH-funded team at the University of California, San Francisco, reported that a brain-computer interface decoded speech and upper-body gestures at the same time in people with paralysis, driving a full-body virtual avatar.
Earlier BCIs typically restored either speech or movement, not both together. The researchers used electrocorticography arrays and machine learning trained on simultaneous speech-and-gesture attempts, and published the work in Nature Neuroscience (Brosler et al., 2026).
Source: News-Medical / NIH summary