China Successfully Implants World's First Commercial Brain-Computer Interface Device in Patient

Chinese medical professionals have succeeded in the world's first transplantation surgery using a commercial brain-computer interface (BCI). A medical team from Huashan Hospital, affiliated with Fudan University in Shanghai, implanted the commercial device 'Neo' into a patient with impaired hand movement on the 13th.

'Neo' operates by reading signals from the surface of the brain without penetrating brain tissue and converting them into hand movements. The surgery was performed by implanting a coin-sized chip inside the skull.

China's National Medical Products Administration granted the world's first approval for a commercial BCI product to 'Neo' last March. Following the approval, product production, hospital adoption, and patient selection were swiftly conducted over approximately four months, leading to this surgery.