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By Conn Hastings Blackrock Neurotech, a medtech company based in Salt Lake City, has pioneered an array of brain-computer interface technologies. Medgadget last spoke with Blackrock Neurotech a year ago about their thought-to-text brain computer interface, but since the company signed an agreement with a research institution to develop portable brain computer interface (BCI) systems.…

By Elissa Welle The term “brain-computer interface,” or BCI, has been buzzing around Silicon Valley and the mainstream media for years, thanks in part to Elon Musk’s secretive, yet flashy company Neuralink, which launched in 2017 with the promise of brain enhancement, telepathy, and similar sci-fi dreams of brain control. Neuralink, though, is one of…

By Freethink Florian Solzbacher and Marcus Gerhardt came together to start Blackrock Neurotech. It has become the world’s leading brain-computer interface company, producing the majority of BCI implants that are or have been in patients, ever. A chip is implanted into the motor cortex. As a user thinks of an action like moving their hand,…

By Joseph Guzman | June 21, 2022 The at-home system can allow users to write their own emails or text messages and work on a computer. Researchers have made great strides toward eventually providing the more than 5 million people with paralysis in the U.S. more mobility and independence with the development of an experimental…

By: Ruairi Mckenzie Blackrock Neurotech, a leader in brain-computer interface (BCI) device design, recently has announced a collaboration with Venice, CA-based software developer AE Studio. Blackrock’s MoveAgain BCI was recently granted breakthrough device designation by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). AE Studio will bring their expertise to the software powering MoveAgain, enhancing the system’s…

By Meg Byrant Blackrock Neurotech LLC has acquired spatial computing software startup Mindx Corp. to advance full-stack brain-computer interface (BCI) products. As part of the transaction, Mindx’s augmented reality (AR) and artificial intelligence (AI) technology will be integrated with Blackrock’s BCI hardware. Highlights: “Having a fully integrated platform will also improve scalability as Blackrock begins…

By Liam Drew Implants are becoming more sophisticated — and are attracting commercial interest. James Johnson hopes to drive a car again one day. If he does, he will do it using only his thoughts. In March 2017, Johnson broke his neck in a go-carting accident, leaving him almost completely paralysed below the shoulders. He…

By: Jeremie Oliver Imagine a world where our brains can dictate action without using our limbs. Contemplating this reality is mind-boggling, considering the technology that would be required to translate neurological signals into movement. It seems too good to be true in our lifetime, but Salt Lake City-based Blackrock Neurotech begs to disagree. Lauded as…

For some people, a critical link – the one sending signals from brain to body, the one connecting thought to action – does not work properly, or in some cases, has been severed entirely. Marcus Gerhardt, CEO and co-founder of the Salt Lake City, UT-based company Blackrock Neurotech, is creating a technology called a brain-computer…

By: Billy Hurley, Digital Editorial Manager While a presidential meetup is a once-in-a-lifetime moment for many, a handshake in 2016 between 30-year-old Nathan Copeland and President Barack Obama felt extra special. For starters, Copeland, paralyzed from the chest down after a car accident, was using a robotic hand – one controlled by two brain implants…