BioWorld Medtech | Blackrock Neurotech snaps up Mindx to drive brain-computer interface implants

In The NewsBy Jessica NaniApril 27, 2022

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…

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Press Release | Blackrock Neurotech and Phantom Neuro Partner to Enable Prosthetics and Exoskeletons that Mimic Human Movement in Real-Time

Press ReleaseBy Jessica NaniApril 26, 2022

The Phantom X system uses muscle-sensing implant technology to enable greater mobility in people with orthopedic injuries. SALT LAKE CITY and AUSTIN, Texas, April 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Blackrock Neurotech, an industry leader in brain-computer interface (BCI) technology, and Phantom Neuro, a recently launched neurotech startup that delivers a high accuracy system for lifelike control of robotic…

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Nature | The Brain-Reading Devices Helping Paralysed People to Move, Talk and Touch

In The NewsBy Jessica NaniApril 20, 2022

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…

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Press Release | Blackrock Neurotech acquires spatial computing software firm MindX to commercialize full-stack brain-computer interface product

Press ReleaseBy Jessica NaniApril 20, 2022

Acquisition brings MindX’s innovative software technology and Blackrock’s industry-leading BCI hardware under one roof SALT LAKE CITY, April 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Blackrock Neurotech (“Blackrock” or “the Company”), a leading implantable brain-computer interface (“BCI”) technology backed by world-renowned investors Peter Thiel and Christian Angermeyer, announced today the acquisition of spatial computing software firm MindX, integrating…

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Utah Business | This brain-computer interface helps paralyzed individuals type using only their minds

In The NewsBy Jessica NaniMarch 16, 2022

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…

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Tech Briefs | Here’s an Idea: How a Brain-Computer Interface Works

In The NewsBy Jessica NaniMarch 11, 2022

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…

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Tech Briefs | What a Feeling: A Look Back at a High-Tech Presidential Handshake

In The NewsBy Jessica NaniMarch 9, 2022

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…

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ZDNet | How brain-computer interfaces are turning thoughts into text

In The NewsBy Jessica NaniMarch 8, 2022

Next-generation BCIs are helping people who can’t speak to communicate more easily. Most of the arrays used in human trials of invasive BCIs – where electrodes are laid directly onto the surface of the brain – are made by one company, Blackrock Neurotech. Blackrock Neurotech is also working on language applications for BCIs. Instead of…

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Forbes | Thought-To-Text Typing Hits 90 Characters/Minute With 94% Accuracy

In The NewsBy Jessica NaniFebruary 23, 2022

Thought-To-Text Typing Hits 90 Characters/Minute With 94% Accuracy   New brain-computer interface technology is giving quadriplegic and tetraplegic patients the ability to control computers, thought type at 90 characters a minute, and move robotic arms to feed themselves, or high-five family members. Built by Blackrock Neurotech and including technology licensed from Stanford University, the technology is scheduled…

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NYU Langone Health | NYU Langone Receives $8M NIH Grant to Develop State-of-Art Brain Implant to Study Epilepsy

Press ReleaseBy Jessica NaniFebruary 17, 2022

Provided by NYU Langone Health NEW YORK, Feb. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — There are more than 3.4 million adults and children in the United States with active epilepsy, and about one million of those experience seizures that are unable to be controlled by medicine. To further understand this intractable form of epilepsy, NYU Langone Health…

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