With our neural interface, we have shown that longevity. We have shown that with our neural interface,. Like Hasn't, right? That puts them at a disadvantage. So they have their arms or the BCI pioneers that we've worked with. Ian has his arm, but he's tetra-progic from the neck down. Can't really move his shoulders much. With him, they connected his thoughts to a prosthetic arm. And there's a video of him playing a toy guitar again. You can see him moving his fingers again.
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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