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The BCI questions nobody is funding yet, and why it matters #BCI

⁉️ The BCI Question Nobody Is Funding Yet, and Why It Matters
Why BCIs Fail Series: Post 22

When will @… write about Elon Musk's Neuralink Blindsight brain implant? Still nothing in sight. #BCI

(YouTube) Gestala CEO Phoenix Peng on Bloomberg TV: The future of non-invasive ultrasound BCI #noninvasive

StairMed's penetrating BCI trial at Huashan reaches 18 cumulative implants https://insidebci.com/news/2026-07-20-stairmed-18-patients-huashan-shanghai-penetrating-bci-trial/

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, alongs…

Seeing anew: mechanisms, outcomes, and challenges in adapting to restored sight via visual prostheses #BCI…

A visual imagery paradigm for #BCI strategies using imagined flickering patterns https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-41324-6 (table correction at

A visual imagery paradigm for BCI strategies using imagined flickering patterns - Scientific Reports
Steady state visually evoked potentials (SSVEPs) are a popular type of control signals in brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), in which they are typically elicited by observing a visual stimulus flashing at a specific frequency. For some patients, using SSVEP as control signal for a BCI can be difficult, for instance if they are unable to focus their gaze over the visual stimuli. To address this issue, some approaches were presented to design a gaze-independent SSVEP-controlled BCI but some diffic…

Version v3 of the white paper and living document on The vOICe vision BCI and brain implants for restoring vision is now on Zenodo #BCI

Living through the age of the narrative: much like #AI companies keep promising AGI and great economic growth, invasive #BCI companies keep promising that their brain implants will cure or provide relief for many neurological disorders. Sure, there will be some successes, but...

(LinkedIn) The BCI race: innovation vs. scale (and why the US might lose the brain-to-computer war) 🧠💥 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/bci-race-innovation-vs-scale-why-us-might-lose-war-panda-yu-6ba5c/

The BCI Race: Innovation vs. Scale (And why the US might lose the brain-to-computer war) 🧠💥
The BCI Race: Innovation vs. Scale (And why the US might lose the brain-to-computer war) 🧠💥 While the West fixates on Neuralink’s latest patient milestones and venture-backed celebrity founders, a massive shift is happening in the East that the global tech community is largely ignoring.

It looks like brain implants for restoring vision to the blind will need AI scene description to become practical/useful/functional while giving phosphenes (to late-blind) mostly for the visual experience with light perception. #hybrid #BCI #AI

(YouTube) #BCI without opening the skull, the race with China, and the 2040s | Tom Oxley, Synchron https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gvHqRv8gTg

Companies developing brain implants for restoring vision to the blind will add smartglasses to compensate for ultra-crude vision, but smartglasses offering AI scene description, real-time talking OCR and sensory substitution may render the brain implant redundant. #BCI #blindness

(YouTube) No Priors podcast: From restoring sight to reimagining the brain, with Max Hodak, CEO of Science Corporation #BCI

An exceptionally conductive hydrogel for all-organic, ultraflexible, and chronic neural interfaces #BCI

Without the months of training needed with brain implants for restoring vision, one cannot make a fair comparison with The vOICe noninvasive vision BCI #BCI

NeuroXess eyes mass BCI production with new unit coming online in H2 #BCI

NeuroXess eyes mass BCI production with new unit coming online in H2
Chinese brain-computer interface company NeuroXess is gearing up for what it sees as the next phase of the industry: mass production.

The silence around actual progress with the Neuralink Blindsight brain implant for restoring vision to the blind is deafening, and its opaqueness is blinding too. #BCI #hype vs #transparency &

The vOICe vision BCI, or a brain implant?
White paper and living document comparing Neuralink Blindsight and other brain implants with The vOICe vision BCI for the totally blind.

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NeuroXess eyes mass BCI production with new unit coming online in H2 #BCI

(Chinese) 对话明视脑机刘冰：脑机接口已经到了一个必须靠创新才能往前走的节点 #BCI

对话明视脑机刘冰：脑机接口已经到了一个必须靠创新才能往前走的节点
对话明视脑机刘冰：脑机接口已经到了一个必须靠创新才能往前走的节点

Working in BCI: Culture, Purpose, & Vision #BCI #NeuroTech

Working in BCI: Culture, Purpose, & Vision
Motif Neurotech's Jacob Robinson, Neurosoft's Nicolas Vachicouras, Precision Neuroscience's Benjamin Rapoport, Science Corp's Max Hodak, Paradromics' Matt Angle, Synchron's Tom Oxley, weigh in on culture in brain-computer interface

Long-term stability of cellular-resolution brain-computer interface recordings after stroke #BCI

Long-term stability of cellular-resolution brain-computer interface recordings after stroke
Implantable brain-computer interfaces (iBCIs) with single-neuron resolution are showing great promise for restoring mobility and communication in individuals with spinal cord injury or motor neuron disease. Stroke is the most common cause of acquired brain injury and a major contributor to long-term disability, making chronic stroke a highly relevant indication for iBCIs. However, whether stable intracortical recordings can be obtained from the structurally lesioned human brain is unknown. We r…

(YouTube) The Med Device Cyber Podcast: Could a hacker change what a patient sees? With Frederik Ceyssens about the ReVision Implant visual prosthesis #BCI

Many BCI companies use the narrative that if you create fancy technology you will get fancy clinical results #BCI

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Artificial Vision 2026 - International Symposium on Visual Prosthetics, Aachen, Germany. Call for abstracts, deadline September 16, 2026 #BCI

Government strategy is shaping the global brain-computer interface race https://neurotechreports.com/news/government-strategy-is-shaping-the-global-brain-computer-interface-race

Government Strategy Is Shaping the Global Brain-Computer Interface Race   - Neurotech Reports
Three events converged this year to turn brain-computer interfaces from a research curiosity into a subject of government strategy. China moved a product to market, having already built the machinery to pay for it. The U.S. funded a founder. The European Union asked its regulators to study a problem. This is not an accident of timing. It reflects fundamentally different beliefs about what a government should do when a new technology can read, and may soon write to, the human brain.  

From deep brain stimulation to brain–computer interfaces: current progress in implantable neurotechnology https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2026.1928223/full

Frontiers | From deep brain stimulation to brain–computer interfaces: current progress in implantable neurotechnology
Brain implants, including deep brain stimulation (DBS) systems, brain–computer interfaces (BCIs), and speech neuroprostheses, are moving from the proof-of-co...

Implantable neuromodulation devices in psychiatry: human fidelity and implementation challenges #BCI

The Brain and The Chip 2026, October 26-28, Spain #BCI

(YouTube) Unboxing your #BCI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Moh_ytOHAwU Plug into your living mouse for unspecified animal experiments, by Science Corp.

Biocompatibility trap #BCI

Biocompatibility trap
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The PhD student machine is more easily kept spinning with a never-ending series of technical and biological challenges related to implants, giving an academic research incentive bias that may not favor the best approaches for patients. #invasive #implantable

Review article: Restoring vision and touch with cortical microstimulation #BCI

Restoring vision and touch with cortical microstimulation | Nature Reviews Bioengineering
The restoration of sensory function following injury or disease represents a critical challenge in neuroengineering. Sensory neuroprostheses, particularly those targeting the primary visual (V1) and somatosensory (S1) cortices, promise to bypass damaged afferent pathways and reintroduce sensory percepts through direct cortical stimulation. Building on foundational insights from non-human primate research, epicortical and intracortical microstimulation has been used to evoke artificial visual an…

Low-level "visual" perception with visual-to-auditory sensory substitution is at least on par with brain implants for restoring vision. It's the higher-level visual perception where there remain many open questions. Much more scientific effort should go into that. #BCI #blindness

Sound can complement electrode-based brain implants (BCIs) in multiple ways. https://bioniclab.substack.com/p/sound-waves-against-scar-tissue "What if we could redirect the brain's immune response using nothing but sound?"

🔊 Ultrasound Against the Foreign Body Response: What Sound Did to Microglia
Why BCIs Fail Series: Post 16

(YouTube) Neuralink: Our first transdural procedure #BCI #NeuroTech

BRIDGE-STIM 2027: Probing sensorimotor circuits and perception across species with microstimulation workshop, Pittsburgh, May 17-19, 2027 #BCI

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(YouTube, Spanish) UMHTV – Recuperación inesperada de la visión de una persona ciega mediante microestimulación cerebral (Unexpected recovery of vision in a blind person through brain microstimulation) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQLJBxeLo20

(LinkedIn) The channel count arms race https://www.linkedin.com/posts/timir-datta-6b67886_the-channel-count-arms-race-neural-interfaces-share-7480637564358598657-zQbl/

The channel count arms race. Neural interfaces keep chasing higher channel counts, on the assumption that more channels mean more useful information. The truth is more nuanced: the returns are often… | Timir Datta
The channel count arms race. Neural interfaces keep chasing higher channel counts, on the assumption that more channels mean more useful information. The truth is more nuanced: the returns are often diminishing and application-dependent, while the costs to the system and to the tissue keep rising. 1. Every channel carries a systems cost. Each channel needs access to an analog front end, and every acquired channel burns power before any algorithm sees the signal. The AFE can consume a signifi…

🕵️ Your brain's immune system isn't fighting the implant. It's listening to it. https://bioniclab.substack.com/p/your-brains-immune-cells-are-eavesdropping Post 15 in the Why BCIs Fail series;

🕵️ Your Brain's Immune System Isn't Fighting the Implant. It's Listening to It.
Why BCIs Fail Series: Post 15

(YouTube, 2023) This seeming "reconstruction" is misleading: not reconstruction but rather neural signal pattern matching with video frame lookup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zBZySKWAqA Seeing through the eyes of a mouse by decoding its brain signals.