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.


Warning: Trying to access array offset on null in /home3/blackry1/public_html/wp-content/themes/edesign/single.php on line 131

You might also like

IEEE Spectrum | What It’s Like to Live With an Experimental Brain Implant

Jessica Nani

By Ed Gent | IEEE Spectrum “Scott Imbrie vividly remembers the first time he used a robotic arm to shake someone’s hand and […]

Wired – Meet the Man Making Music With His Brain Implant

Jessica Nani

By: Emily Mullin Galen Buckwalter says brain-computer interfaces will have to be enjoyable to use if the technology is going […]

The Scientist | What Will It Take to Design a Brain Implant That Lasts a Lifetime?

Jessica Nani

Momentum behind brain-computer interfaces is growing, but experts say that design innovations are needed to help them survive decades in […]

StoryCollider – Attitude: Stories about inner strength

Jessica Nani

Attitude is everything—and this week’s storytellers prove it. Even when life throws challenges their way, they show how perspective and […]

CALICOIN Crypto Project Powered by BCI Hype

Jessica Nani

Vivian Nguyen | Crypto Briefing CaliCoin (CALICOIN), a new Solana-based meme token created by a brain-computer interface pioneer, achieved $30 […]

Blackrock Tech Featured in Movement Restoration Story

Jessica Nani

NBC News highlighted Chad Bouton’s work using Blackrock implants to help a paralyzed man regain movement. A brain implant used […]

The paralysed people moving robotic arms with their minds

Jessica Nani

Tom Whipple | The Times The first time Scott Imbrie used his robotic arm one of the scientists, Lisa, walked […]

A high-performance brain–computer interface for finger decoding and quadcopter game control in an individual with paralysis

Jessica Nani

We are thrilled to celebrate a remarkable milestone in neurotechnology: Using Blackrock Neurotech’s technology, researchers from Stanford University and the […]

BCI-Gaming Milestone Published in Nature Medicine

Jessica Nani

A participant with Blackrock implants played a video game using multi-finger decoded movements, marking a major advance in recreational BCIs. […]