China surpasses Elon Musk’s Neuralink for world’s first commercial brain-computer interface implant: Car crash victim receives coin-sized chip that converts neural signals into hand movements

• There has been a notable development in brain-computer interfaces
• A commercially sold BCI is implemented for the first time
• It comes from the Chinese company Neuracle Medical Technology.

This week saw a notable breakthrough in the field of brain-computer interfaces (BCI): surgeons in China have successfully implanted a commercially sold BCI into a patient’s brain for the first time.

As reported by the South China Morning Post, the device is called Neural Electronic Opportunity (NEO) and is manufactured and sold by Neuracle Medical Technology. It is the size of a coin and is equipped with eight electrodes.