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China has approved the world’s first invasive brain-computer chip—here’s what’s next

By You XiaoyingJune 1, 2026 · 1 min read

One day last October, sitting in the courtyard of his house in China’s Henan province, Dong Hui decided to see if he could hold a pen to write.  Dong, 39, had sustained spinal cord injuries in a car accident six years earlier that left him paralyzed from the …

NEO beat several other BCIs to approval, including one from Neuralink, a California-based company founded by Elon Musk. Since October 2023, Neuracle has conducted 36 clinical trials using NEO, includ…

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