The Ministry of Science and ICT has designated brain-computer interfaces as a core future industry, setting seven mission areas from paralysis treatment to defence applications, with full-scale project funding beginning in 2027.
The Austin-based neurotech company launches its APEX Partnership Program with five leading research institutions, aiming to push its Connexus brain-computer interface beyond speech restoration into stroke recovery, Parkinson's and motor rehabilitation.
The Leuven-based neurotech company's Occular system, which uses thousands of micro-electrodes implanted in the visual cortex to restore functional sight, has received FDA Breakthrough Device Designation.
A brain-computer interface developed by Mass General Brigham and Brown University enabled two paralysed individuals to type at speeds rivalling able-bodied texting, with a word error rate of just 1.6 per cent.
In just nine months China has issued a national BCI blueprint, overtaken the United States in BCI patent filings, funnelled hundreds of millions into startups, and has just granted the world's first commercial implant approval.
The invasive-BCI startup has now raised over $160 million in a year, with Alibaba and Tencent both on the cap table and multicenter clinical trials planned for later this year.
Neuracle Medical Technology secures NMPA clearance, making its coin-sized cortical implant the first invasive BCI anywhere in the world authorised for routine clinical sale.
The two-month-old startup founded by Shanda billionaire Tianqiao Chen and former NeuroXess founder Phoenix Peng secures the largest early-stage BCI funding in China, betting that focused ultrasound can reach deeper brain circuits than any implant.
The Mark Cuban-backed startup releases a behind-the-scenes demo of Atlas, a non-invasive brain-computer interface that translates scalp-measured neural activity into real-time wheelchair navigation using deep learning and large-scale neural datasets.
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