Thought-to-audio implant lets ALS patient speak at home
Terry, third enrollee in Neuralink’s VOICE study NCT07224256, used a Grok Voice clone trained on his pre-ALS recordings.
23 September 2026 · Inside BCI
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Neuralink trial user speaks through N1 without using his mouth
A September 18, 2026 demonstration video showed the words I love you produced without speaking them aloud.
19 Sept · NDTV
China clears a wave of brain implants against Neuralink
A Chinese firm completed the world's first commercial BCI implant in July.
2 Sept · Semafor
Surface array steers games without penetrating cortex
Precision Neuroscience showed Layer 7 in almost 100 participants at 18 U.S. academic medical centers.
28 Aug · pharmaphorum
Former Vancouver sergeant recounts N1 as Neuralink’s 26th recipient
Lee Marten, diagnosed with ALS in early 2025 at 47, had May surgery after about seven months of vetting.
27 Aug · Teslarati
Paradromics gets FDA nod for personal devices
On August 27, 2026, Paradromics told MassDevice the FDA approved expanding computing devices used with its investigational Connexus BCI.
27 Aug · massdevice.com
Sugar-cube implant run from Chicago to Daejeon
KAIST verified the rat device over four weeks after an August 27 announcement.
27 Aug · news-medical.net
KAIST implant mixes light, drugs and a Chicago–Daejeon click
The rat study appeared 29 July in Science Advances.
27 Aug · kaist.ac.kr
Low-frequency thalamic DBS nudged speech after injury
One traumatic brain injury patient’s clear speech improved by as much as 20% with stimulation.
27 Aug · usnews.com
Umbrella arrays hold mouse units for 80 weeks
Nature Communications published the open-access paper on 27 August 2026.
27 Aug · Nature Communications
FDA lets Connexus talk to personal laptops and phones
On 27 August 2026 Paradromics said the FDA broadened devices usable with Connexus inside Connect-One.
27 Aug · medicaldevice-network.com
Double neural bypass left residual movement after shutdown
Keith Thomas picked up a cup and drank almost six years after a diving accident.
26 Aug · ecoticias.com
Remote internet control of a sugar-cube neural implant
A Chicago researcher steered the device in Daejeon over the internet.
26 Aug · Medical Xpress
Seoul ceremony launches Korea BCI Alliance
The Ministry of Science and ICT held the launching ceremony on the 26th at The Plaza Maple Hall.
26 Aug · Maeil Business Newspaper
FDA letter lets Connexus talk to phones and laptops
Paradromics Inc. received the investigational expansion on 26 August 2026.
26 Aug · insidebci.com
Personal devices enter Connect-One without per-gadget filings
Convey is the pathway Paradromics will use after agreed testing.
26 Aug · paradromics.com
China fields a closed-loop MRI brain-computer platform
On August 25, 2026, Shanghai United Imaging Healthcare and Tianjin University released uMR Shenguan, billed as a full-stack MRI system for BCI acquisition, decoding, modulation, and evaluation.
25 Aug · interestingengineering.com
Mapped DBS eased one woman’s stubborn pain
The case series appeared July 30 in Brain Stimulation.
24 Aug · sciencenews.org
Musk says Neuralink Blindsight human implants in six to 12 months
The project is listed as an upcoming clinical trial of whether direct brain stimulation can help people “see without their eyes.”
24 Aug · Khaama Press
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FDA IDE opens DBS feasibility work in resistant schizophrenia
Judith Gault’s CU Anschutz team may now prepare an early feasibility study, not an established treatment.
24 Aug · news.cuanschutz.edu
Tianjin team releases MRI-based BCI stack
uMR Shenguan was jointly released by Shanghai United Imaging Healthcare Co and Tianjin University.
24 Aug · Global Times
Deep learning tunes a visual-cortex implant in a blind volunteer
A Neuron study covered August 23, 2026, used AI-designed stimulation on a 96-channel array in a 27-year-old man’s visual cortex, needing less current than prior patterns.
23 Aug · technology.org
Munich tumour cases give ABILITY first-in-human ECoG recordings
ABILITY Neurotech logged 20 to 30 minutes of signal during surgery at TUM University Hospital Rechts der Isar.
22 Aug · insidebci.com
White House moves BCIs into Future Computing on CET list
OSTP’s National Security Science and Technology Strategy of 19 August 2026 cut the CET list from 18 domains in 2024 to 14.
22 Aug · Inside BCI
Review maps neuromorphic chips onto implanted BCIs
npj Biomedical Innovations published the open-access review on 20 August 2026 as volume 3, article 51.
20 Aug · nature.com
Low-frequency motor thalamus DBS lifts speech after TBI
In Nature Communications, low-frequency motor thalamus DBS improved speech intelligibility in a TBI participant by 8%, 20%, and 16% across three sessions versus stimulation off.
20 Aug · nature.com
Ability Neurotech optical BCI heads toward European trials
On August 20, 2026, IEEE Spectrum reported Ability Neurotech’s infrared ECoG implant began intraoperative recording in Germany and plans a chronic ALS trial in the Netherlands later in 2026.
20 Aug · spectrum.ieee.org
Frontiers maps shared bottlenecks in brain implants
A 19 August 2026 mini-review in Front. Neurosci. treats deep brain stimulation, brain–computer interfaces, and speech neuroprostheses as one closed-loop architecture.
19 Aug · frontiersin.org
Lee Marten texts from an N1 after Toronto Western surgery
Lee Marten, 26th Neuralink recipient and first Canadian with ALS to get the N1, used Link within an hour of waking and later hit 35 on-screen bubbles per minute.
14 Aug · macleans.ca
C&EN surveys electrode materials for speech and movement BCIs
The feature, dated August 13, 2026, cites a June Nature Medicine report of almost two years of independent communication by a man with ALS.
13 Aug · cen.acs.org
StairMed’s 10-minute neck-vein implant remains a sheep-stage objective
The Shanghai startup has yet to start any human clinical trial.
10 Aug · The News International
StairMed describes vessel-route BCI at Hong Kong summit
The Shanghai firm has raised more than 1.1 billion yuan over the past year.
9 Aug · South China Morning Post
AI-designed pulses steer a visual-cortex implant
A 96-channel array in a 27-year-old man’s visual cortex was driven by deep-learning stimulation patterns reported 7 August 2026.
7 Aug · medicalxpress.com
CorTec reports Fugl-Meyer gains in three stroke patients
All three showed arm and hand gains of 8 to 12 points after cortical stimulation with intensive physiotherapy.
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Neuracle places first commercial NEO implant at Huashan Hospital
NEO received Chinese regulatory approval in March as the first invasive BCI cleared for commercial use by any national regulator.
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First Canadian ALS patient gets Neuralink implant
Lee Marten, 26th recipient worldwide, was implanted in May at Toronto Western Hospital.
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