{"id":162709,"date":"2023-04-23T14:26:38","date_gmt":"2023-04-23T19:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/blackrock-neurotech-reveals-neuralace-10000-channel-next-gen-bci"},"modified":"2023-04-23T14:26:38","modified_gmt":"2023-04-23T19:26:38","slug":"blackrock-neurotech-reveals-neuralace-10000-channel-next-gen-bci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/blackrock-neurotech-reveals-neuralace-10000-channel-next-gen-bci","title":{"rendered":"Blackrock Neurotech Reveals Neuralace\u2122: 10,000+ Channel Next-Gen BCI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/blackrock-neurotech-reveals-neuralace-10000-channel-next-gen-bci2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blackrock\u2019s long-tested NeuroPort\u00ae Array, widely considered the gold standard of high-channel neural interfacing, has been used in human BCIs since 2004 and powered many of the field\u2019s most significant milestones. In clinical trials, patients using Blackrock\u2019s BCI have regained tactile function, movement of their own limbs and prosthetics, and the ability to control digital devices, despite diagnoses of paralysis and other neurological disorders.<\/p>\n<p>While Blackrock\u2019s BCI enables patients to execute sophisticated functions without reliance on assistive technologies, next-generation BCIs for areas such as vision and memory restoration, performance prediction, and treatment of mental health disorders like depression will need to interface with more neurons.<\/p>\n<p>Neuralace is designed to capitalize on this need; with 10,000+ channels and the entire scalable system integrated on an extremely flexible lace-structured chip, it could capture data that is orders of magnitude greater than existing electrodes, allowing for an exponential increase in capability and intuitiveness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blackrock\u2019s long-tested NeuroPort\u00ae Array, widely considered the gold standard of high-channel neural interfacing, has been used in human BCIs since 2004 and powered many of the field\u2019s most significant milestones. In clinical trials, patients using Blackrock\u2019s BCI have regained tactile function, movement of their own limbs and prosthetics, and the ability to control digital devices, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,1499,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-cyborgs","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}