Tag: WAIC-2026

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Industry News

Chinese BCI programmes produced four tangible results in July

In one month, four separate Chinese brain-computer interface programmes each produced a public result. Neuracle wrote the world's first commercial prescription for an invasive BCI at Huashan Hospital on 13 July. NeuroXess ran a two-patient cross-city Chinese chess demonstration between Shanghai and Nanchang. StairMed's investigational trial put three quadriplegic patients into paid remote work. And at the World AI Conference in Shanghai, a paralysed fine-arts graduate from Shenzhen demoed a mind-controlled wheelchair he had built himself with LLM-assisted DIY.

Jul 31

Industry News

StairMed's penetrating BCI trial at Huashan reaches 18 cumulative implants

On 20 July 2026, at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, StairMed disclosed that its cortex-penetrating invasive BCI clinical trial at Huashan Hospital has now reached 18 cumulative implants since March 2025. The Shanghai firm co-founded by Zhao Zhengtuo and Xue Li at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Center for Excellence in Brain Science demonstrated a patient three months post-op controlling a wheelchair by thought and hitting 6.19 bits per second on a cursor task, alongside a live journalist test at 4.9 bits per second with a finger.

Jul 20

Market Moves

BrainCo unveils a brain-to-robot developer platform at WAIC 2026 in Shanghai

On Friday 17 July 2026, at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, BrainCo debuted its Brain-Controlled Robot AI Platform, a graphical developer toolkit that pairs its non-invasive EEG headset with third-party humanoid, robotic-arm, and quadruped robots from Unitree, Realman, and Deep Robotics. Nyx He, partner and senior vice president, framed the launch as the next chapter of human-machine collaboration. Live demonstrations at the booth showed a person in an EEG headband directing a robotic arm to pick up a cup and an apple without buttons, voice, or muscle movement.

Jul 18