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China is catching up to the US in brain tech, rivaling firms like Elon Musk’s Neuralink
CHINA, JUL 20 – China’s Beinao-1 chip has completed five human trials matching US firms, with plans to implant up to 100 patients next year to advance brain-computer interface technology.
- In March 2025, Chinese scientists demonstrated the Beinao-1 wireless brain-computer interface implanted in five patients, including an ALS patient who regained speech ability.
- China's rapid BCI development follows a late start in the 1990s but benefits from increasing funding, government support, and plans to implant chips in 50 to 100 more patients.
- The Beinao-1 chip differs from Elon Musk's Neuralink in implantation method and signal processing, and Luo suggests they are not directly competitive technologies.
- Neuralink completed its first dual implant surgeries and holds five patients with implants, while experts say China is now starting to drive the BCI field in some areas despite US leadership.
- The progress in Chinese and US BCI research suggests growing global competition in brain tech, with clinical trials expanding and potential applications aiming to aid millions with neurological diseases.
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“I want to eat” popped up in Chinese characters on a computer at a public hospital in central Beijing. The words were formed from the thoughts of a 67-year-old woman with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, who is unable to speak.
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“I want to eat” – this message appeared in Chinese ideologies on the screen of a computer from a public hospital in the capital of Beijing. The words were formed from the thoughts of a 67-year-old woman with amiotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
Newtalk News On a computer screen in a hospital in Beijing, the words "I want to eat" appeared. This sentence comes from a 67-year-old woman with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), who uses a chip implanted in her brain to convert brain signals into text. She has been unable to speak for many years, but now she can "speak" again through the "Bei Nao No. 1" chip. This achievement is a major breakthrough in China's brain-computer interface (BCI…
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