China has made amazing new breakthroughs in the field of brain-computer interfaces, just like science fiction movies have come to life. Scientists have developed a technology that allows paralyzed patients to control external devices using only their "minds."
For example, a patient with quadriplegia for up to 14 years can use brain-computer imaging to direct a robotic arm to deliver water to him or drink by thinking, or move a computer cursor and control a glove exoskeleton to grasp objects.
At the heart of the technology is the implantation of tiny electrode arrays in the patient's brain, which can capture neural signals from the brain and decode them into instructions that the machine can understand.
In this way, even body parts that are unable to move autonomously can be operated by devices connected to brain-computer interfaces.
In addition, the brain-computer interface also helps people with aphasia to "speak" again, using AI technology to convert the verbal thinking in the brain into speech output, which greatly improves the speed and quality of their communication.
A number of research teams in China, such as Tsinghua University and Beijing Tiantan Hospital affiliated to Capital Medical University, have made significant progress in this field, not only realizing the world's first non-human primate to complete complex movements through brain control in animal experiments, but also successfully helping patients with high paraplegia to recover some of their self-care ability in clinical trials, which has really improved the quality of life of patients.
China's innovative achievements in brain-computer interface have brought revolutionary hope to medical treatment, and also opened a new chapter in the possibility of combining artificial intelligence with the human body in the future.