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Subscribe for 1$Sign In * NEWS * ENGINEERS DIRECTORY * NEWSLETTERS * CES 2025 * PODCASTS * SHOP * JOBS 1 Innovation 🚀 UNITREE'S HUMANOID ROBOTS CAN NOW DANCE LIKE HUMANS WITH NEW OPEN-SOURCE DATA SET Christopher McFadden a day ago 0 2 Military 🚀 US ARMY SELECTS BAE SYSTEMS TO DEVELOP NEW 155 MM MULTI-DOMAIN ARTILLERY CANNON Bojan Stojkovski a day ago 0 3 Military 🚀 CHINA'S 'METAL STORM' GUN FIRES 450,000 ROUNDS PER MINUTE, CLAIM SCIENTISTS Bojan Stojkovski a day ago 0 4 Science 🚀 RARE FIRST-ORDER QUANTUM PHASE TRANSITION SPOTTED IN INDIUM OXIDE FILMS Rupendra Brahambhatt a day ago 0 5 Space 🚀 CHINA TESTS FIVE ROCKET ENGINES IN SINGLE DAY TO STRENGTHEN SPACE PROGRAM Bojan Stojkovski 2 days ago 0 6 Health 🚀 MILLIONS OF US MEN SUFFER FROM CONDITION NOW LINKED TO ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION Christopher McFadden 2 days ago 0 7 Innovation 🚀 WATCH: CHINA'S HUMANOID ROBOT EXECUTES SQUATS, 360° LEG ROTATIONS WITH PRECISION Christopher McFadden 2 days ago 0 8 Energy 🚀 CHINA FIRM TO BUILD WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL ULTRA-LARGE ONSHORE WIND TURBINE Prabhat Ranjan Mishra 3 days ago 0 9 Innovation 🚀 WORLD’S LARGEST EV BATTERY MAKER UNVEILS 373-MILE-RANGE SWAPPABLE BATTERIES Ameya Paleja 3 days ago 0 10 Culture 🚀 WHY SAUDI’S $100-BILLION KING ABDULLAH MEGA CITY STRUGGLES TO IMPRESS Kaif Shaikh 3 days ago 0 1 CES 2025 🌟 WORLD'S SMALLEST YET-MOST-POWERFUL E-BIKE MOTOR TO BE DISPLAYED AT CES 2025 Christopher McFadden 17 minutes ago 0 2 CES 2025 🌟 CES 2025: SAMSUNG AIMS TO REVOLUTIONIZE YOUR LIVING ROOM WITH AI ASSISTANT TVS Chris Young 26 minutes ago 0 3 Military 🌟 TAIWAN DEVELOPS HYPERSONIC MISSILE THAT CAN TRAVEL 6 TIMES THE SPEED OF SOUND Abhishek Bhardwaj 35 minutes ago 0 4 Transportation 🌟 NORWAY EXPLORES NUCLEAR REACTOR PROPULSION TO POWER COMMERCIAL SHIPPING FLEET Kaif Shaikh an hour ago 0 5 CES 2025 🌟 CES 2025: FIRST ROBOT VACUUM WITH TINY ARM PICKS UP SOCKS, TOYS TO TIDY UP Jijo Malayil 4 hours ago 0 6 Innovation 🌟 CHINA’S 8,080-MILE NETWORK DELIVERS LIGHTNING SPEED, 0 DATA LOSS, ULTRA-LOW DELAYS Mrigakshi Dixit 4 hours ago 0 7 CES 2025 🌟 CES 2025 BEGINS WITH BIG TECH UNVEILING FUTURISTIC INNOVATIONS IN LAS VEGAS Kapil Kajal 8 hours ago 0 8 CES 2025 🌟 CES 2025: CHINA'S JSAUX TO SHOWCASE TRI-SCREEN MONITOR THAT OFFERS SPLIT-SCREEN BROWSING Prabhat Ranjan Mishra 20 hours ago 0 9 Military 🌟 CHINESE SOLDIERS USE DISASTROUS FLAMETHROWER GUNS THAT CAN MELT HUMAN FLESH Prabhat Ranjan Mishra 20 hours ago 0 10 Culture 🌟 400-YEAR-OLD VAULT STUFFED WITH BODIES AND 1,500-YEAR-OLD SARCOPHAGI DISCOVERED Maria Mocerino 21 hours ago 0 * Share * * * * * * * * Innovation * Science BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACE DEVELOPED IN CHINA DECODES THOUGHT REAL-TIME NEUROXESS’ NEW BCI, IMPLANTED INTO A EPILEPTIC PATIENT’S BRAIN, COULD NOT ONLY DECIPHER THE COMPLEX CHINESE LANGUAGE BUT ALSO OPERATE A ROBOTIC ARM AND INTERACT WITH AI. Updated: Jan 05, 2025 06:12 AM EST Christopher McFadden a day ago 0 * Share * * * * * * * Representational image of an ongoing experiment with BCI. oonal/iStock NeuroXess, a Chinese startup, has made two major breakthroughs in brain-computer interface (BCI) technology, coming to the aid of a brain-damaged patient. The first was its ability to decode thoughts to speech in real time, and the other was remotely controlling a robot arm using thoughts alone. Testing of the startup’s new BCI also enabled the user to talk to an artificial intelligence (AI) model and operate a digital avatar. These tests are result of an experiment undertaken in August 2024 at Huashan Hospital, where neurosurgeons implanted a 256-channel, high-throughput flexible BCI device into the patient’s brain. The patient was a 21-year-old female with epilepsy who had a space-occupying lesion in the motor area of her brain. Using this interface, NeuroXess could record and analyze electrocorticogram (ECoG) features from the high-gamma band of the patient’s brain signals. According to NeuroXess, these signals correlate with complex cognition and neural synchronization, offering detailed brain activity data, especially movement and sensory information. SPEECH FROM BRAIN SIGNALS The high-gamma band (70-150 hertz) of ECoG signals were then used to train a neural network model to decode in real time, achieving a system delay of under 60 milliseconds. They could also map brain function areas accurately within minutes of the surgery. Following training, the patient could play table tennis and snake computer games within just 48 hours. In two weeks, the patient was reportedly able to use XessOS, NeuroXess’ brain-computer operating system, to operate common smartphone apps like WeChat and Taobao. The patient could also control smart home and wheelchair systems, significantly enhancing her daily life capabilities. While this was impressive, what was more noteworthy was that the new BCI could decipher speech from the same brain signals. The Chinese language, unlike alphabetic languages, uses more brain regions due to its monosyllabic, tonal, and logographic nature, which makes understanding brain signals more complex. According to NeuroXess, this required them to develop more specialized neural mechanisms and decoding methods. BCI INTERACTS WITH AI NeuroXess reports that BCI achieved 71% speech decoding accuracy using 142 common Chinese syllables within five days, with a single-character decoding latency of under 100 milliseconds. This is the highest level of real-time decoding of Chinese speech that has been achieved in China to date. The company also released a video showing that the patient’s brain could directly control robotic hands to grasp an apple and a pear and perform sign language for ‘Happy New Year, 2025’. RECOMMENDED ARTICLES The device also enabled the patient to operate a digital avatar to say ‘hello’ and interact with the AI model, as seen in the video. The company has proclaimed this breakthrough as the world’s first “mind-to-AI large model” dialogue. “Neuralink’s strategy requires implantation into the cerebral cortex, which can cause damage to brain tissue,” said Tao Hu, founder and chief scientist at NeuroXess. “Our approach involves the cerebral cortex, which can effectively avoid potential damage to brain tissue.” Following this work, the company is now aiming to use its BCI to enhance the quality of lives of individuals with speech or motor function disabilities like Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), high-level paraplegia, and stroke. 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Since then, he has worked exclusively within the Built Environment, Occupational Health and Safety and Environmental Consultancy industries. He is a qualified and accredited Energy Consultant, Green Deal Assessor and Practitioner member of IEMA. Chris’s main interests range from Science and Engineering, Military and Ancient History to Politics and Philosophy. 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