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China just put its first commercial brain implant into a patient. It’s smaller than Neuralink’s, on purpose.

China just put its first commercial brain implant into a patient. It’s smaller than Neuralink’s, on purpose.
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China has performed the world’s first surgery using a commercially approved brain-computer interface. Surgeons at Huashan Hospital in Shanghai implanted a coin-sized chip in a patient with impaired hand movement, the South China Morning Post reports. The patient had lost hand function after a spinal cord injury in a car accident a decade ago.

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