China completes first clinical case of fully implanted, battery-powered brain-computer interface

Summary

NeuroXess announced China's first fully implanted, fully wireless, battery-powered BCI. The device was implanted in a 28-year-old spinal cord injury patient who had been paralyzed for eight years. Within five days, the patient controlled a computer cursor using thought alone and later operated a wheelchair and robotic arm. The system achieved a neural decoding rate of 5.2 bits per second.