Starlight Virtual Reality Technology Company has launched a brain-computer interface chip and bionic smart prosthetic limbs, allowing disabled people who have lost limbs to return to a normal life.
At the beginning, this news did not cause much response on the Internet.
After all, this kind of news breaks out almost once or twice every year, just like the previous room-temperature superconducting materials, which caused a sensation in the material world every year, but would eventually be proven to be false news.
With this disruptive technology, every year different companies from different countries stand up and say that they have achieved it, but in fact there is still a long way to go before they can truly achieve it.
At first, everyone thought that this little-known Starlight Technology was the same, and it was just a gimmick to deceive people.
But later, as the shareholders behind this company, which was almost unknown in China, were revealed, everyone discovered that it was actually their famous Academician Xu who had done it.
For a time, this sudden news exploded on the Internet.
Especially when Starlight Technology released some phased videos of clinical medical experiments on its official website, on almost all online platforms where communication can be carried out, including Bib, βhu, Bilibili, etc., related topics were like nuclear bombs.
[Hiss~, have you watched the video? Those disabled people in clinical experiments are simply more flexible than normal people!]
[Moreover, normal people cannot bend their fingers and wrists behind their backs. This robotic arm is simply a fortress!]
【Fuck! This is so crazy!】
【Everyone, the era of evolution has arrived!】
[The flesh and blood are weak, and the machines are soaring! If they were all replaced with mechanical arms, and then equipped with cannonballs or particle weapons, wouldn't it be like one against a hundred? 】
[Iron Man’s Mark armor is not a dream!]
[Doesn’t anyone care about brain-computer interface chips? If this technology develops a little further, it will be virtual reality technology!]
[The kind that allows you to play games just by wearing a helmet?]
[Why are you so anxious? Academician Xu will take action! 】
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Discussions on the Internet have exploded.
It is true that the video uploaded by Starlight Virtual Reality Technology of people with disabilities undergoing clinical experiments is really shocking.
In the video, the various tests performed by a disabled person wearing a bionic smart prosthesis shocked almost everyone's jaws.
From basic functions such as walking, running, serving tea and pouring water, to delicate tasks such as picking up a pen to write, picking up food with chopsticks, and even some functions that normal people's arms and legs cannot do, all are displayed in the video.
If there were still people who suspected that Starlight Technology’s brain-computer interface chip technology and bionic smart prosthetics were just gimmicks at the beginning, then almost no one now doubts that this company has really done it.
Especially the person standing behind Starlight Technology is Academician Xu.
It is no exaggeration to say that everyone who knows him knows the style of this scholar who stands at the top of the academic pyramid. He has never cheated in matters such as scientific research.
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Meanwhile, on the other side of the Pacific Coast.
NeuroPace Neurotech Co., Ltd., California, USA.
This is a high-tech enterprise founded in 1997 and headquartered in California, USA, dedicated to treating epilepsy through responsive stimulation of brain implantable devices.
As early as 2013, the ‘epilepsy neurostimulator’ developed by this company was approved by the FDA and entered the market.
This is a medical device similar in principle to an automatic defibrillator.
A cardiac defibrillator can detect and terminate arrhythmias, while the 'RNS Epilepsy Neurostimulator' continuously monitors brain waves and immediately releases electrical stimulation to abort epileptic seizures when it recognizes brain electrical signals before an epileptic seizure.
It is no exaggeration to say that in the field of neuroscience, NeuroPace Neurotechnology Co., Ltd. is a truly ancient enterprise.
The Neuralink brain-computer interface company previously established by Musk is like a baby just a few months old in front of it.
At this moment, in the headquarters building of NeuroPace, a brain neural interface experiment is underway.
A patient who is paralyzed due to a stroke is sitting in front of a giant screen with a virtual person who looks like her.
When the patient named 'Annie' wants to speak, with the help of a brain-computer interface installed under the cortex of the brain, the virtual person will speak for her - using her own voice.
"How is the research going?"
Standing in the laboratory, waiting quietly for the experiment to be completed, Anderson Root, deputy director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, asked.
Standing next to him, Professor Wilson Morton, the general manager of the brain-computer interface chip of NeuroPace Neurotechnology Co., Ltd., said with a smile on his face:
"After optimization, the BCI neural conversion language system has made great progress. As early as two years ago, we could only convert speech into text at a speed of 78 words per minute."
"Now, Annie has achieved a normal speaking average speed close to 150 words per minute. According to the current progress, it will take about a year at most before we can bring the BCI neural conversion language system to the market!"
“It will open up a whole new market for us!”
"Moreover, if we can continue to delve deeper into solving virtual reality technology, we will completely change the pattern of the entire world!"
After hearing this answer, Anderson Root, standing in the laboratory, finally showed a smile on his face.
"Half a year!"
"I will give you another half year at most, and I want to see the fully mature BCI neural conversion language system come out!"
After successive failures in the fields of energy, aerospace, and chips, the U.S. government urgently needed to make new progress in the high-tech field, so it adjusted its policies on a large scale and invested funds in fields such as AI intelligence and virtual reality technology.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! With the adjustment of policies, these originally relatively unpopular fields have suddenly expanded. Tens of billions of dollars have been invested, and numerous related companies have been established in Silicon Valley and San Francisco.
Hongmao.
NeuroPace Neurotechnology Company is one of the key companies favored by the Ministry of Health and Human Services. In the past year, they have invested at least 3 billion yuan in capital and related technical support.
Now, it's finally time for them to reap the rewards.
Across the laboratory, Professor Wilson Morton still had a smile on his face, but when he heard the other party's request, he subconsciously retorted: "This is impossible...Okay, I will try my best."
“But you have to know that it’s not just the difficulties with neural conversion that limit the launch of our BCI neural voice converter, but also FDA review.”
Hearing this question, Anderson Root said noncommittally: "For disabled patients who have lost their language function, the BCI neurospeech converter is their hope to regain communication with the outside world."
"This is a product that benefits the world. I believe the FDA will give us a pass."
FDA is the highest law enforcement agency specializing in food and drug administration, authorized by the U.S. Congress, that is, the federal government.
A government health regulatory monitoring agency composed of professionals such as doctors, lawyers, microbiologists, chemists, and statisticians dedicated to protecting, promoting, and improving national health.
Any food, medicine, medical equipment, cosmetics, etc. that enter the United States must undergo its certification before being put on the market.
Before many foreign products enter the United States, the first step is to apply for FDA certification.
However, for domestic companies in the United States, especially high-tech companies like them, the FDA is often not a restriction, but a helper.
After all, the greatness of the United States needs to be supported by high-tech enterprises like them. It is not a big problem for the FDA to provide some conveniences to their products at the appropriate time.
Even if necessary, they can use the FDA to restrict the flow of competitive products from other countries into the United States, or suppress them.
His eyes fell on Patient Anne who was wearing a brain-computer interface chip. Anderson Root was silent for a while and suddenly asked.
"Speaking of which, I remember that in addition to neural voice converters, NeuroPace's brain-computer interface chip laboratory is also researching coding body movement technology. How is that research going now?"
Coding limb movement technology is brain-computer interface technology oriented to motor functions.
It mainly develops algorithms to reconstruct the control of movement by motor cortex neurons. This research can be traced back to the 1970s.
To put it simply, it uses brain-computer interface chips to sense brain waves and then control sufficiently complex mechanical products.
Such as prosthetics, robots, etc.
And the further development of this technology is virtual reality technology.
As early as the last century, NeuroPace neurotechnology has been conducting research in this area, but virtual reality technology has not been a very popular field.
After all, there are too many troubles and problems that it needs to solve.
Hearing this question, Professor Wilson thought for a moment and said: "Judging from our recent experiments, it is completely feasible to further derive virtual reality technology through brain-computer interface chips. We have confirmed this."
"But to complete this technology, we need to solve the biggest problem of virtual reality technology, which is the problem of accurate conversion of brain waves and neural signals."
"In this area, we haven't made much progress so far."
"Of course, to be precise, there should be little progress in all countries around the world. After all, compared to the neural voice converter we are studying, the complete virtual reality technology has greater requirements in terms of information transmission, sensory organs, central system and other functions.
It’s countless times more complicated.”
"Not to mention virtual reality, which is to control a robotic arm through a brain-computer interface chip, the information and functions that need to be transmitted are hundreds or thousands of times more complex than a neural voice converter."
After hearing Professor Wilson's explanation, Anderson Root nodded without saying anything.
Professor Wilson Morton was originally a top scholar at Harvard University. He was an absolutely authoritative expert in the field of neurotechnology and an academician of the National Academy of Sciences. NeuroPace spent a lot of money to poach him.
Anderson was still willing to believe what he said.
If even he says it is very difficult, I believe it will be impossible for other companies to complete this technology before NeuroPace completes the brain-computer interface chip technology.
Especially for countries other than the United States, it is even more impossible.
Nodding, he looked at Wilson Morton and said, "I need you to complete the neural voice converter technology within half a year, and then devote all your energy to coding body movement technology."
"I need to see a breakthrough in coding body movement technology within two years, which is related to the layout of the entire high-tech field in the United States..."
Just as he was talking, the door to the laboratory was gently pushed open, and a young female assistant in uniform walked in quickly and whispered a few words in Professor Wilson Morton's ear.
After hearing the assistant's report, the smile on Wilson Morton's face, which was originally relaxed and cheerful, suddenly froze.
He quickly 'snatched' the tablet from his assistant and clicked on the news headlines inside.
When his eyes scanned the headlines of the news, his dark green pupils suddenly shrank, and the smile on his face completely disappeared.
"Damn it!"
"This is impossible!"
On the opposite side of the laboratory, Anderson Root was stunned for a moment when he heard Professor Wilson's curse, and then came back to his senses and asked curiously: "What happened?"
"See for yourself."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Taking a deep breath, Wilson Morton no longer cares about etiquette, he frowned and handed over the tablet in his hand with a heavy expression.
If this is true, then they've invested billions in 'hope' and it will all be dashed.
Without any pause, the deputy director of health and human services quickly took the tablet and looked at the news on it.
When his eyes saw the line of news reports, he was stunned.
"Starlight Virtual Reality Technology Co., Ltd., jointly controlled by Professor Xu Chuan of China and his sister Xu Xiao, officially launched brain-computer interface chip and bionic intelligent prosthetic technology."
"It is understood that this technology can allow disabled people who are missing arms or legs to return to a normal life."
"From the clinical medical experiment videos currently released by Starlight Technology, we can clearly see that experimenters wearing bionic mechanical prostheses can live like normal people, and can even perform many actions that normal limbs cannot do."
"According to an interview with a neuroscience professor, this technology is very likely to lead to virtual reality technology. Our reporters are traveling to China to conduct in-depth interviews on the specifics of this technology. If you want to know the follow-up, please pay attention to our media reports."
When the relevant news came into view, Anderson Root was stunned.
Brain-computer interface chip and bionic smart prosthetic technology?
How is this possible!
Especially when the video released by Starlight Technology ended, he was shaking unconsciously as if he had fallen into an ice cave in Antarctica.
Damn it, when did China have such advanced technology in brain-computer interface chips?