Blackrock Neurotech, based in Salt Lake City.
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EXCLUSIVE: This Utah biotech company has implanted brain chips in more than 30 people — and its founder wants to treat blindness, paralysis and DEPRESSION
It sounds like the stuff of science fiction - but a company in Utah has already implanted brain chips in dozens of patients.
Blackrock Neurotech, based in Salt Lake City, has the grand ambition of treating physical paralysis, blindness, deafness and depression.
The chip — known as NeuroPort Array — allow people to control robotic arms and wheelchairs, play video games and even feel sensations.
It works by using nearly 100 microneedles that attach to the brain and read electrical signals produced by someone's thoughts. More than three dozen people have so far received it.
The device was first implanted in a human in 2004. Company leaders hope to bring it to market soon, announcing in 2021 they aimed for the next year.