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China Pours Money Into Brain Chips that Give Paralysed People More Control

CHINA, JUL 4 – China aims to advance medical brain-computer interfaces to aid neuromuscular disorder patients, with 20 individuals receiving implants in early trials, officials said.

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Brain–computer interfaces being trialled in China offer some advantages over Neuralink and other leading US devices. Brain–computer interfaces being trialled in China offer some advantages over Neuralink and other leading US devices.

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U.S. tycoon Elon Musk has announced that his neurotechnology company, Neuralink, will begin implanting brain chips in people with visual impairment with the aim of restoring the vision of those who have lost this capability completely. Tesla and SpaceX owner has detailed that the technology developed by Neuralink will be able to write information directly into the visual cortex, which, according to Musk, would be a new possibility for medicine a…

After launching DeepSeek, the free rival and just as efficient as ChatGPT, China has shown that it is firmly and strongly committed to technologies of the future. And that it is not afraid to face anyone. Even one of the most powerful names (and men): Elon Musk. And it has created its own and improved, alternative to Neuralink. It is a device, more precisely a brain-computer interface (ICC) that allowed a man without limbs to play video games. T…

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A brain device allowed a man without limbs to play video games, which demonstrated the potential of the brain-computer interfaces (BCI) currently being tested in China. In the race to develop brain chips, the Asian country is allocating important resources with the aim of offering greater autonomy to people with paralysis, according to an article published this Friday in Nature. The BCI system, developed by the medical technology company StairMe…

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Nature broke the news in United Kingdom on Friday, July 4, 2025.
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