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Brain-computer interfaces and the future of neural engineering with Dr. Benjamin Rapoport | E1682

This Week in Startups

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What Are the Brain Computer Interfaces?

precision has raised $53 million to date to come up with minimally invasive neurosurgical implants. They're designed to connect the brain directly to computer systems as ways of helping to treat some forms of neurologic disorder that are currently untreatable. These include things like certain forms of paralysis, stroke, traumatic brain injury. The promise of the technology has been around for quite some time but it wasn't until about 20 years now that there was kind of a general consensus in academia into real tech world.

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