Beijing: Chinese scientists made a significant stride forward in the clinical application of brain-computer interface technology with a successful procedure on a 72-year-old male patient whose body was paralysed from the neck down.
Zhejiang University announced on Thursday that a team of researchers and doctors at the university’s Qiushi Academy for Advanced Studies and its Second Affiliated Hospital in Hangzhou had successfully implanted two microelectrodes into the man’s brain to link his central nervous system to a mechanical arm outside his body.
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