On 25th April 2024, XinHua reported the NeuCyber Array BMI System, a self-developed brain-machine interface (BMI) system from China, was unveiled at the opening ceremony of the 2024 Zhongguancun Forum (ZGC Forum) on Thursday in Beijing.
At the forum, a video demonstration revealed a remarkable feat: a monkey with its hands restrained and soft electrode filaments implanted in its brain, controlled an isolated robotic arm and grasped a strawberry by simply using its “thoughts.”
“In short, the technology captures the subtle changes of electrical signals from neurons and decodes the brain’s intentions, to realize ‘thoughts’ control ‘actions’,” said Luo Minmin, director of the Chinese Institute for Brain Research.
The NeuCyber Array BMI System is composed of three major components — high-throughput flexible microelectrode array, a thousand-channel high-speed neural signal acquisition system, and a generative neural decoding algorithm based on a feedforward control mechanism.
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