The Observer | Brain Implant Technology Lets Paralysis Patients Move, Touch and Feel With Their Thoughts

Brain Implant Technology Lets Paralysis Patients Move, Touch, and Feel With Their Thoughts

“The BCI research community is extremely vibrant. They are looking at everything from [enabling people to] walk again, see again, hear again, and even feel again. Anything you can think of, they are researching it,” said Marcus Gerhardt, CEO of Blackrock Neurotech, a Salt Lake City-based medical tech company whose BCI has been implanted in 31 patients in various clinical studies worldwide, more than any company in the world.

Gerhardt, an entrepreneur and investor by training, cofounded Blackrock in 2008 along with Florian Solzbacher, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Utah with a mission to accelerate the commercialization of BCI technologies.


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