The German neurotech company becomes the first to receive FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for a brain-computer interface targeting motor recovery after stroke, with its closed-loop Brain Interchange system showing meaningful recovery in a Harborview Medical Center trial.
Michel Maharbiz of iota Biosciences will keynote the ninth annual Bioelectronic Medicine Forum in New York on April 14, with panels on reimbursement and venture capital following a record Q1 for BCI funding.
A new 42-month programme will fund teams to build biological processing units from neural organoids, benchmarked against video games and drone navigation, at energy budgets rivalling a fruit fly's brain.
With seven UK patients implanted under the GB-PRIME study and a total of twenty worldwide, Neuralink's R1 surgical robot has moved to Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi for the next cohort under the UAE-PRIME trial.
Neurosurgeon Daniel Kramer implants a BCI in a quadriplegic patient at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital, with electrodes placed in higher-level brain areas rather than motor cortex alone.
A Johns Hopkins team reports 77.5% speech classification and 78–84% motor decoding accuracy using Precision's 1,024-channel thin-film cortical array during awake brain surgery in four patients.
A Government Accountability Office report warns that the FDA has no framework for augmentation uses of brain-computer interfaces, even as military and commercial applications advance.
Synchron ranked eighth on Fast Company's 2026 most innovative data science companies list, reflecting a strategic pivot from hardware maker to neural data platform.
Tohoku University researchers trained cultured rat cortical neurons to produce sine waves, square waves, and chaotic Lorenz attractors using closed-loop FORCE learning, demonstrating that biological neural networks can serve as computational resources.
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