{"id":243598,"date":"2026-09-04T01:29:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T06:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/neural-implant-in-korea-remotely-controlled-from-the-united-states-bringing-brain-research-into-the-iot-era"},"modified":"2026-09-04T01:29:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T06:29:03","slug":"neural-implant-in-korea-remotely-controlled-from-the-united-states-bringing-brain-research-into-the-iot-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/neural-implant-in-korea-remotely-controlled-from-the-united-states-bringing-brain-research-into-the-iot-era","title":{"rendered":"Neural Implant in Korea Remotely Controlled from the United States, Bringing Brain Research into the IoT Era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neural-implant-in-korea-remotely-controlled-from-the-united-states-bringing-brain-research-into-the-iot-era.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A researcher in Chicago remotely controls a miniaturized brain implant in Daejeon, Korea \u2014 over the internet. Korean researchers have developed a wireless device that can deliver drugs and light to precisely modulate targeted neurons from anywhere in the world. The technology is expected to overcome the constraints of distance and location, supporting long-term studies of brain disorders and the future development of therapeutic devices.<\/p>\n<p>KAIST (President Choongsik Bae) announced on August 27 that a research team led by Professor Jae-Woong Jeong from the School of Electrical Engineering, in collaboration with Professor Wha Young Kim\u2019s team at Yonsei University College of Medicine, has developed an IoT-enabled wireless neural implant that integrates drug delivery, optical stimulation, wireless communication, and internet-based remote control into a single miniaturized device.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A researcher in Chicago remotely controls a miniaturized brain implant in Daejeon, Korea \u2014 over the internet. Korean researchers have developed a wireless device that can deliver drugs and light to precisely modulate targeted neurons from anywhere in the world. The technology is expected to overcome the constraints of distance and location, supporting long-term studies [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38,418,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering","category-internet","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243598","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}