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China just put its first commercial brain implant into a patient. It’s smaller than Neuralink’s, on purpose.

By Alina Maria StanJuly 17, 2026 · 1 min read

China has performed the world’s first surgery using a commercially approved brain-computer interface. Surgeons at Huashan Hospital in Shanghai implanted a coin-sized chip in a patient with impaired hand movement, the South China Morning Post reports. The pati…

TL;DR Surgeons at Huashan Hospital in Shanghai have performed the worlds first surgery using a commercially approved brain-computer interface, implanting Neuracles coin-sized NEO device in a patient…

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