Precision, founded in 2021, is one of many companies in the emerging brain-computer interface (BCI) industry. A BCI is a system that deciphers brain signals and translates them into commands for external technologies, and several companies have successfully created devices with this capability.
Precision was co-founded by Benjamin Rapoport, who also co-founded Elon Musk’s BCI company Neuralink and Michael Mager. But while the Neuralink BCI is designed to be implanted directly into brain tissue, the Precision relies on a surgical technique that is designed to be less invasive.
They have created an extremely small device, like a new layer of cells, a brain implant that aims to help paralyzed patients operate digital devices with neural signals alone. This means that patients with serious degenerative diseases will regain their ability to communicate with their loved ones by moving cursors, typing and accessing social networks with their minds.
This is an array of electrodes that resembles a piece of adhesive tape and is thinner than a human hair, helping it conform to the surface of the brain without damaging any tissue.
To implant the matrix, a surgeon makes a very thin slit in the skull and slides the device like a letter into a mailbox. Mager, who is also the CEO of Precision, said the slit is less than a millimeter thick, so small that patients don’t even need to have their hair shaved off for the operation.
They have presented it in precisionneuro.io, where you have more details of the invention.
