BCIs & Neurotechnology News and Discussions

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China’s brain-computer interface industry is racing ahead
Kate Park
8:00 AM PST · February 22, 2026

While Elon Musk’s Neuralink likes to say it’s “pioneering” brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), China’s BCI industry is already quietly moving from research to scale.

A new wave of startups is racing to commercialize both implantable and noninvasive BCIs, backed by stronger policy support, expanding clinical trials, and growing investor interest. So says Phoenix Peng, who has founded not one but two BCI startups. He’s a co-founder of NeuroXess, maker of BCI implants, as well as founder and CEO of noninvasive ultrasound BCI startup Gestala.

His belief in the potential of this market is founded on concrete action: Provinces such as Sichuan, Hubei, and Zhejiang have already set medical service pricing for BCI, speeding its inclusion in the national medical insurance system.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/22/china ... ing-ahead/

This frankly is what is needed to advance as a species instead of becoming just a slave to agi/asi in the future. Seriously.

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Max Hodak’s Science Corp. is preparing to place its first sensor in a human brain
Tim Fernholz
10:13 AM PDT · April 14, 2026

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/14/max-h ... man-brain/

Science Corporation, the startup from former Neuralink president and co-founder Max Hodak, has enlisted a top neurobiologist to lead the first U.S. human trials for its biohybrid brain-computer interface.

Dr. Murat Günel, chair of Yale Medical School’s Department of Neurosurgery, has signed on as a scientific adviser after two years of discussions. His goal is to surgically place the first sensor for a future interface — one that will eventually combine lab-grown neurons with electronics — into a patient’s brain.

Science, founded in 2021, completed a $230 million Series C fundraising round last month that valued the company at $1.5 billion. Its most advanced product is PRIMA, a device for restoring vision in people with blindness caused by macular degeneration and similar conditions. Science acquired the technology in 2024 and has advanced it through clinical trials, with plans to make it more widely available in Europe once regulatory approval is obtained, perhaps as soon as this year.

Hodak, however, co-founded the company with a bigger vision in mind: creating reliable communication links between computers and the human brain — both to treat disease and to establish a path toward human enhancement, such as adding entirely new senses to the body. He has dedicated his career to that proposition, from talking his way into a graduate neuroscience lab as a college student, to founding his first biotech computing startup, to building Neuralink alongside Elon Musk.

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I'd like to see information or knowledge upload/write directly into the brain. This would be as big if not bigger then most a.i. This would directly benefit us as a species.

1. Knowledge upload
2. A.i + information uplink
3. Thinking to screen

From most to least important in my mind.

Of course you can add 4....Possible control directly from mind of electrics or machines. This would go along ways towards controlling your robot that is at the work place sometime in the future or fighting the war.

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Imagine such controlling your robot at the work place? Imagine this controlling a war bot on the front lines???

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BCI startup Neurable looks to license its ‘mind-reading’ tech for consumer wearables
Lucas Ropek
6:19 AM PDT · April 28, 2026

BCI (brain-computer interface) technology — in which neural signals are routed from a person’s head to a computer — was once the stuff of science fiction, but these days the technology represents a competitive corner of the tech industry. One of the companies racing to commercialize BCI is Neurable, which this week announced that it’s looking to license its “mind-reading” technology to consumer wearables.

Neurable specializes in “non-invasive” BCI, which distinguishes itself from firms like Neuralink — the Elon Musk-founded startup known for inserting computer chips directly into people’s skulls — in that its product doesn’t require users to undergo brain surgery to enjoy its benefits.

Neurable’s technology works through a combination of EEG sensors and signal processing that can scan a user’s brain activity, analyze it with AI, and provide information about a person’s cognitive performance.

In December, Neurable raised $35 million in a Series A, which it plans to use to scale the commercialization of its technology. This week, the company announced that, as part of its expansion effort, it is looking to license its technology to a variety of consumer-facing companies.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/28/bci-s ... wearables/

I think the main use for this is literally robotic control. This will become a major economic and society driver in the future as it will allow you to control your work bot on the job. One of the main ways people will be able to remain within the work force.

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Number one reason for this is to use your wage making robot and home robot and to be able to add your input.

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Why would a person need to be in the loop for no reason during automated work?

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Yay, we're doing it. I'd also like to see information uploading to your brain.

You could control robots and your smart home
merge with a.i and get instant information. f*ck memorization?
You could upload knowledge. No more 12 years of schools just to learn the basics.