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Rapoport: Precision is only leading BCI company with FDA clearance
“We're actually the first modern brain computer interface company to have a FDA clearance. So the version of the electrode that you were holding in your hand actually has now FDA clearance. So among the current leading BCI companies, we're the only company that…”
Rapoport: Precision's lattice electrodes enable cross-patient ML learning
“In the precision system, one of the inherent advantages is that the data is so regular in structure that we're able to compress it. We're able to learn across patients, across populations, and leverage those learnings in the machine learning algorithms that we…”
Rapoport: BCIs will augment human memory in the near future
“I definitely foresee a future in which we can You know, a near future in which we can augment you know, memories through that kind of fluid interaction.”
Rapoport: Precision patients achieve cursor control within minutes of training
“And yet we've begun to be able to do that in ways that are incredibly reliable And in ways that patients can learn to achieve cursor control actually within just a couple of minutes of training data.”
Rapoport: Precision will run 30-day implants before permanent human trials
“We're moving to a next phase in our clinical studies that will allow the system to be left in place for up to 30 days, and that phase will help us further validate the quality of our decoding algorithms and deeply understand the nature of the signals as these …”
Rapoport: Stroke is the next market expansion for BCIs
“And in practical terms you know, we think that probably stroke represents the next expansion of the market for brain computer interfaces.”
Rapoport: Most brain regions are irrelevant for external BCI communication
“Most of the brain is, is actually not relevant for communicating with the outside world or with artificial intelligence. Most of the brain is taking care of the body and not in ways that are Particularly relevant to interfacing with the outside world.”
Rapoport: Predicting decisions a fraction of a second ahead is already possible
“Predicting decisions before they happen, at least at the fraction of a second level is already possible. And we have already some understanding of the areas of the brain that are responsible for that.”
Rapoport: 15% or more of unresponsive patients retain covert consciousness
“For some disorders of consciousness, some people who are you know, seemingly not able to interact with the outside world, their eyes are closed. They are not moving or speaking. Some of those people it's now known about maybe even 15 or more percent in some ca…”
Rapoport: Precision is developing BCIs to detect consciousness and restore communication
“We feel, and we're working on this that brain computer interface technology can provide a tool for distinguishing those patients from true coma, and yes, providing a way for them to communicate.”
Rapoport: BCIs bypass the brain's 25-millisecond biological motor latency
“We already know actually that the latency between your brain and your hand and the ability to think something and type it is around 25 milliseconds. So that actually puts a, Biological hard limit on how fast you can interact with the digital world, even though…”
Rapoport: Precision has tested up to 4,096 surface electrodes simultaneously in humans
“And we've done that actually many times in, in quite a few patients we've used at least two of these simultaneously providing 2048 electrodes on the surface of the human brain. And in one particular case, we used 4096 electrodes for modules.”