Bloomberg: Musk's #Neuralink eyes fundraise at $8.5 billion valuation https://archive.ph/ODYYx "Elon Musk's Neuralink is planning to raise about $500 million at a pre-money valuation of $8.5 billion"; #BCI #NeuroTech
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Neuralink Blindsight or The vOICe, that's the question...
https://www.artificialvision.com/neuralink.htm
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(Coming up on May 7) Wired lives: Personal stories of brain-computer interfaces, a live storytelling event presented by The Story Collider https://neuro.gatech.edu/wired-lives-personal-stories-brain-implants Ferst Center for the Arts, Georgia Tech; #BCI #NeuroTech
neuro.gatech.eduWired Lives: Personal Stories of Brain Implants | Neuro Next Initiative
(YouTube podcast) Brain-computer entrepreneur: Paradromics’ Matt Angle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JE64Sq635o At 4:28: "we could allow people who are blind or deaf to get those senses back by using a brain implant to put data into their brain directly from camera or microphone"; #BCI #NeuroTech
In her latest President’s Perspective, Caroline Montojo reflects on recent advances in brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), ethical considerations to ensure neurotechnologies evolve in ways that are safe and rooted in the needs of all people, and the Foundation’s collaboration with the Implantable BCI Collaborative Community.
https://dana.org/article/advancing-neurotechnology-responsibly-the-power-of-collaboration/
Dana FoundationAdvancing Neurotechnology Responsibly: The Power of Collaboration
Postdoc position at the Ophthalmic and Neural Technologies Laboratory https://ghezzilab.org aimed at developing brain implants ("Neural Dots") for restoring vision to the blind https://emploi.ophtalmique.ch/?page=advertisement_display&id=1464 #BCI #NeuroTech
Ophthalmic and neural technologies laboratoryOphthalmic and neural technologies laboratoryOpen Post Doctoral position The Ghezzi Lab started in 2015 at EPFL in Lausanne (Switzerland) with the Medtronic Chair in Neuroengineering. Currently, the Ophthalmic and neural technologies laboratory is hosted at Hôpital ophtalmique Jules-Gonin - Fondation Asile des Aveugles in Lausanne (Switzerland). We are a multidisciplinary laboratory bringing materials science, computer science, engineering, life science,…
(flashback, 2017) Training-induced visual cortex activity correlates with duration of blindness and speed of performance during sensory substitution https://iovs.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2638265 University of Pittsburgh study based on use of The vOICe; ARVO Annual Meeting Abstract, June 2017. #BCI #NeuroTech
#EPFL: Soft brainstem implant delivers high-resolution hearing (in macaques) https://news.epfl.ch/news/soft-brainstem-implant-delivers-high-resolution--2/ #ABI #BCI #NeuroTech
High-resolution prosthetic hearing with a soft auditory brainstem implant in macaques https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-025-01378-9
news.epfl.ch · Soft brainstem implant delivers high-resolution hearingEPFL researchers have developed a flexible auditory brainstem implant (ABI) that closely conforms to the curved surface of the brainstem. The technology has been successfully demonstrated high-resolution “prosthetic hearing” in macaques.
A fresh talk on the current state of #PsyLink, the open source myoelectric neural interface:
Precision Neuroscience receives FDA clearance for high-resolution cortical electrode array https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/04/17/3063418/0/en/Precision-Neuroscience-Receives-FDA-Clearance-for-High-Resolution-Cortical-Electrode-Array.html "Milestone paves the way for commercialization, unlocks new research potential"; #BCI #NeuroTech
Precision NeurosciencePrecision Neuroscience Receives FDA Clearance for High-Resolution Cortical Electrode Array
(video flashback, Russia, 2018) Beating the Argus II retinal implant with The vOICe non-invasive visual-to-auditory sensory substitution glasses in an open contest in Samara, Russia. Convincingly won by a blind user of The vOICe vision BCI.
(YouTube) #NeuroXess: latest BCI breakthrough https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E8uRlwexyQ Speed and accuracy close to Neuralink; #BCI #NeuroTech
Synthesizing intelligible utterances from EEG of imagined speech https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2025.1565848/full "We present an EEG-to-speech system (ETS) that synthesizes audible, and highly understandable language by EEG of imagined speech", "40% of the phonemes in Chinese"; #BCI #NeuroTech
FrontiersFrontiers | Synthesizing intelligible utterances from EEG of imagined speech
(flashback 2020, Russian) There can be ups and downs in local 1-on-1 training support, while hardware options evolve, but The vOICe vision BCI remains unfazed https://vk.com/wall-96731906_526 #BCI #NeuroTech
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"In view of US turmoil, we now host copies of The vOICe web app in several places outside the US, including on this website, even if out of website context." https://metamodal.nl
Moreover, in case of a total Internet break-down, you can download your own domain-independent zipped copy of The vOICe web app for later web restoration https://www.seeingwithsound.com/webapp.zip (ZIP file). Unlike implants for restoring vision, The vOICe will not become obsolete. #BCI #NeuroTech
metamodal.nlMetamodal BVconsultancy for metamodal processes
Neuralink rival Science Corp. raises $104 million led by Khosla Ventures https://archive.ph/jc3Qf "Previously, the company had raised $186 million, according to data from PitchBook"; #BCI #NeuroTech
Experimenting with #Netlify to host yet another copy of The vOICe progressive web app https://67fe50c77c86fb38bfc86a9a--bespoke-lamington-ea61df.netlify.app/webvoice.htm [Brain implant] hardware eventually fails, [sensory substitution] software eventually works; #BCI #NeuroTech #PWA
67fe50c77c86fb38bfc86a9a--bespoke-lamington-ea61df.netlify.appThe vOICe web app
Implantable BCI company? Not for the faint hearted. A good discussion on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7317228738688012288/ #BCI #NeuroTech
www.linkedin.comImplantable BCI company? Not for the faint hearted. It’s ~ 15+ years… | Thomas Oxley | 44 commentsImplantable BCI company? Not for the faint hearted. It’s ~ 15+ years. Control your burn if early. You can’t spend to accelerate safety.
(Below, “clinical” means fully implantable technology stack and company sponsored trial)
Assumptions based on class 3 PMA stories and looking at market leader histories. Where are my assumptions wrong?
Synchron
8 years preclinical: 2011-2019
6 years so far clinical: 2019-
2028 target approval date for PMA
Neuralink
8 years preclinical: 2016-2024
1 year clinical: 2024-
? target approval date (is it 2032?)
Paradromics
10 years preclinical: 2015-
Not yet clinical
? target approval date (is it 2033?)
Precision
4 years preclinical: 2021-
Not yet clinical
? target approval date (is it 2037?)
Echo
2 years preclinical: 2023-
Not yet clinical
? target approval date (is it 2039?)
BlackRock Neuro
Not sure here - they have a long history of clinical trials but without fully implantable system. Now well funded and kicking off effort to develop a commercial tech stack, so let’s start from Tether funding but presume their preclinical phase is brief…
Preclinical: 2024-
Not yet clinical
? target approval date (is it 2039?) | 44 comments on LinkedIn
Simultaneous EEG and fNIRS recordings for semantic decoding of imagined animals and tools https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-04967-0 "sensory-based imagery tasks using visual, auditory, and tactile perception"; mental imagery, #BCI #neuroscience
NatureSimultaneous EEG and fNIRS recordings for semantic decoding of imagined animals and tools - Scientific DataSemantic neural decoding aims to identify which semantic concepts an individual focuses on at a given moment based on recordings of their brain activity. We investigated the feasibility of semantic neural decoding to develop a new type of brain-computer interface (BCI) that allows direct communication of semantic concepts, bypassing the character-by-character spelling used in current BCI systems. We provide data from our study to differentiate between two semantic categories of animals and tools during a silent naming task and three intuitive sensory-based imagery tasks using visual, auditory, and tactile perception. Participants were instructed to visualize an object (animal or tool) in their minds, imagine the sounds produced by the object, and imagine the feeling of touching the object. Simultaneous electroencephalography (EEG) and near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) signals were recorded from 12 participants. Additionally, EEG signals were recorded from 7 other participants in a follow-up experiment focusing solely on the auditory imagery task. These datasets can serve as a valuable resource for researchers investigating semantic neural decoding, brain-computer interfaces, and mental imagery.
If anything, beating Elon Musk's Neuralink Blindsight project to the punch with a non-invasive vision BCI should be some sweet revenge for his dismantling (rapid scheduled disassembly) of US science. Please contribute, we need you! https://www.artificialvision.com/literature.htm #BCI #neuroscience #DOGE
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