Nathan Copeland was paralyzed from the neck down, complete tetraplegic following a car accident aged 18. He's been part of research studies for that period of time and has been able to show variety of things with his prosthetic arm. The reason why he's able to say that is because there are sensors in the prosthetic hand. And as they shake Barack Obama's hands, there's a signal that's sent back through to Nathan's brain that tells him what he's touching is warm.
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Marcus Gerhardt, chief executive of Blackrock Neurotech, to talk about his boarding school days in Wales (4:00), his dotcom adventures (10:00), pivoting to brain-computer interfaces (16:00), the “Utah array” (18:40), how in 2006 the first person sent an email with his thoughts (20:30), starting the company (23:00), the state of the technology today (26:40), targeting tetraplegics (33:00), getting investment (38:15), going to market (41:30), and reaching an inflection point (47:40).
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