China pours money into brain chips that give paralysed people more control
10 months ago
- #Brain-Computer Interface
- #Medical Technology
- #Neuroscience
- A deep brain device developed by StairMed in Shanghai allows a man with no limbs to play computer games, similar to Neuralink's implants but smaller and less invasive.
- China is rapidly advancing in BCI research with government support, focusing on improving algorithms and implantation devices.
- A minimally invasive wireless BCI device called NEO, tested in 20 individuals, helps restore hand movement in paralyzed patients.
- Chinese researchers are using neuromorphic chips to make BCI devices smaller, less power-hungry, and faster in processing information.
- NeuroXess developed a BCI with 256 probes enabling a woman with epilepsy to use social media and control a wheelchair, and another to communicate in Mandarin at 50 words per minute.