The Utah array is a 4x4 millimeter chip that has 100 pins on it. The pins connect to the tissue and act like a microphone. They record neural data from the brain or from peripheral nerves. And six matnagal, a tetraplagic patient is shown to write an email and send it with his thoughts alone.
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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