We've shown it in 32 human patients that you can do different applications and that you can connect to different parts of the brain. All of these things have been done. And on top of that, we miniaturized the whole system. So where Matt Nagel was sitting next to this rack mounted system, we have taken the power of those rack mounted supercomputers, miniaturize them onto thumbnail big electronics that way less than three grams. We are at a point now where we are confident that we can bring this to market and offer this to tetraplagic patients. That was not possible 16 years ago. But for some who have no other choice, it's an acceptable form
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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