Billionaire Peter Thiel Backs Fundraiser of Brain-Computer Firm By Eyk Henning May 19, 2021 Billionaire investors Peter Thiel and Christian Angermayer have thrown their weight behind a technology startup that promises to help neurologically impaired patients regain lost skills with the aid of electrodes connecting the human brain with computers. The Utah-based company, Blackrock Neurotech,…
Peter Thiel is backing a rival to Elon Musk’s brain implant company By Sam Shead May 19, 2021 Palantir co-founder and venture capitalist Peter Thiel has invested in a company that’s putting computer chips into people’s heads in a bid to improve them in some way. The early Facebook investor, who co-founded PayPal with Elon…
Human Brain Connected Wirelessly To Computer For First Time Ever By Cameron Frew for UNILAD 03 April 2021 Scientists have wirelessly connected a human brain to a computer for the first time in history. The technological advance comes months after Elon Musk unveiled a working prototype of his Neuralink brain chip; only instead of a…
Scientists Have Created a Prosthetic Arm That Lets Patients Feel Touch Again By Ed Cara for Gizmodo 24 July 2019 Keven Walgamott using the LUKE to hold and move an egg (left) and pick grapes (right). Photo: George, et al (Science Robotics) Perhaps one of the profound yet underappreciated aspects of being alive is the…
Man with brain implant on Musk’s Neuralink: “I would play video games” By Antonio Regalado for MIT Technology Review 19 July 2019 Nathan Copeland was one of the first people fitted with a brain implant after an accident left him paralyzed. UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER Nathan Copeland, a pioneering research subject, talks about his…
Research Moves Closer to Brain-Machine Interface Autonomy By Laurie Fickman for the University of Houston 11 June 2019 Findings Could Help Seamlessly Integrate Prosthetics By examining the interactions between single-neuron activities and the information flowing to these neurons, biomedical engineering Professor Joe Francis found that a brain-computer interface, a form of artificial intelligence, can sense…
Utah Innovation Empowers International Collaboration to Achieve Natural Hearing Restoration Utah Array Moves from Brain to Auditory Nerve, Making Hearing Restoration Possible SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, March 19, 2019 – Blackrock Microsystems LLC (Blackrock), manufacturer of neural connectivity technologies, including the Utah Array and Utah Slant Array, announced today that they will be one of…
Degrees of Freedom A scientist’s work linking minds and machines helps a paralyzed woman escape her body. By Raffi Khatchadourian November 19, 2018 For eighteen years, Jan Scheuermann has been paralyzed from the neck down. She is six feet tall, and she spends all day and all night in a sophisticated, battery-powered wheelchair that cradles…
Blackrock Microsystems on HBO VICE for Brain Control Interface By HBO VICE 5 October 2018 “This is my footprint in the sands of time when I finally pass away … “ Dennis Degray – BCI Patient Stanford University What a compelling statement underscoring why we do what we do here at Blackrock. To hear…
Playing Piano With a Mind-Controlled Robotic Arm By Quartz 01 June 2018 Johnny Matheny plays piano with his mind-controlled robotic arm–the first to be taken home by a patient for testing. The first person to live with a mind-controlled robotic arm is teaching himself piano. Johnny Matheny has spent the last five months with an…