FDA Approves IDE for Take-home Trial Using the DEKA LUKE Prosthetic Arm and Utah Slant Array Participants will be able to take home the dexterous bionic hand which they can feel in next phase of research. SALT LAKE CITY, UT (September 22, 2020) — Blackrock Microsystems would like to congratulate the University of Utah Biomedical…
DetailsBreathing Relief for COVID-19 Treatment Thanks to the PufferFish Ventilator This open-source ventilator will directly aid medical communities in treating patients invasively and non-invasively by providing efficient, attainable breathing relief SALT LAKE CITY, UT (September 2, 2020) — Pez-Globo, a worldwide collaborative effort comprised of Stanford University, Brown University, University of Utah, Bharat Forge, Blackrock…
DetailsScientists 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…
DetailsMan 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…
DetailsResearch 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…
DetailsUtah 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…
DetailsDegrees 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…
DetailsBlackrock 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…
DetailsPlaying 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…
DetailsPrecisely-Timed Neural Stimulation Improves Memory SALT LAKE CITY (February 6, 2018) — The University of Pennsylvania Computational Memory Lab recently reported in Nature Communications that targeted and precisely-timed stimulation to the lateral temporal cortex rescues periods of poor memory encoding, thereby improving memory by as much as 15%.
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