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Playing Piano With a Mind-Controlled Robotic Arm

Playing Piano With a Mind-Controlled Robotic Arm By Quartz 01 June 2018 Johnny Matheny plays piano with his mind-controlled robotic arm--the first to be taken home by a patient for testing. The first person to live with a mind-controlled robotic arm is teaching himself piano. Johnny Matheny…

June 1, 2018

Precisely-Timed Neural Stimulation Improves Memory

Precisely-Timed Neural Stimulation Improves Memory SALT LAKE CITY (February 6, 2018) -- The University of Pennsylvania Computational Memory Lab recently reported in Nature Communications that targeted and precisely-timed stimulation to the lateral temporal cortex rescues periods of poor memory…

March 22, 2018

Brain Implants Allow Paralysed Patients to Move Limbs

Brain Implants Allow Paralysed Patients to Move Limbs By Sarah Murray for the Financial Times 04 March 2018 Prosthetics controlled by human thought via computer show promise in clinical trials Bill Kochevar was able to reach with his paralysed arm and hand in a clinical trial last year ©…

March 4, 2018

Closed-loop stimulation of temporal cortex rescues functional networks and improves memory

Closed-loop stimulation of temporal cortex rescues functional networks and improves memory Youssef Ezzyat, Paul A. Wanda, Deborah F. Levy, Allison Kadel, Ada Aka, Isaac Pedisich, Michael R. Sperling, Ashwini D. Sharan, Bradley C. Lega, Alexis Burks, Robert E. Gross, Cory S. Inman, Barbara C.…

February 6, 2018

How to Control a Machine Using Your Mind

How to Control a Machine Using Your Mind By Emma Woollacott Technology of Business reporter for BBC 2 February 2018 Imagine being able to make a machine do your bidding with your thoughts alone, no button pressing, typing, screen tapping or fumbling with remote controls, just brain power.…

February 2, 2018

Brain-Controlled Prosthetics Are Progressing Faster Than We Could Imagine

Brain-Controlled Prosthetics Are Progressing Faster Than We Could Imagine By Mario L. Major for Interesting Engineering 27 November 2017 Innovative approaches to brain-controlled prosthetics were on full display at the annual Neuroscience 2017 meeting. JHU Applied Physics Laboratory A…

November 27, 2017

Restoration of motor control and proprioceptive and cutaneous sensation in humans with prior upper-limb amputation via multiple Utah Slanted Electrode Arrays (USEAs) implanted in residual peripheral arm nerves

Restoration of motor control and proprioceptive and cutaneous sensation in humans with prior upper-limb amputation via multiple Utah Slanted Electrode Arrays (USEAs) implanted in residual peripheral arm nerves Suzanne Wendelken, David M. Page, Tyler Davis, Heather A. C. Wark, David T. Kluger,…

November 25, 2017

New Robotic Hand Named After Luke Skywalker Helps Amputee Touch and Feel Again

New Robotic Hand Named After Luke Skywalker Helps Amputee Touch and Feel Again By William Wan for The Washington Post 15 November 2017 A volunteer in the experiment clasps his hands together and can feel one hand with the other for the first time since his left hand was amputated.…

November 15, 2017

Penn’s Restoring Active Memory Project Adds Task and Patient Data to Publicly Available Human Brain Dataset

Penn’s Restoring Active Memory Project Adds Task and Patient Data to Publicly Available Human Brain Dataset By Michele W. Berger for PennNews 1 November 2017 Penn researchers Michael Kahana and Daniel Rizzuto, who run the Restoring Active Memory project, incorporated data from a new…

November 1, 2017

Utah Scientists Believe They Can Implant a Chip That Would Allow a Paralyzed Person to Drive a Car Using Only His or Her Mind

Utah Scientists Believe They Can Implant a Chip That Would Allow a Paralyzed Person to Drive a Car Using Only His or Her Mind By Robert Gehrke for The Salt Lake Tribune 09 October 2017 (Al Hartmann | The Salt Lake Tribune) Florian Solzbacer, president-executive chairman of Blackrock shows…

October 9, 2017

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Senior Leadership

Alicia Colvin

Blackrock Innovations Project Manager

Alicia’s educational and employment background includes 4+ years Direct Patient Care, 5+ years Project Management,

Dave Kluger

Support Engineer

David started working as a Support Engineer in the beginning of 2019 after receiving his

Greg Palis, BSc

Technical Sales Consultant

Greg completed his Undergraduate degree in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Rochester where he

Jeff Tsang

Support Engineer

Jeff Tsang spent 18 years in the Bay State before deciding he needed a change

Kian Torab, MSc

VP of Technical Consulting & Strategy

Kian finished his undergraduate studies at the University of California, Davis, in biomedical engineering. He

Kristen McIntosh, BS

Operations Manager: Manufacturing

Kristen completed her undergraduate degree in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Utah where she

Likhith Chitneni

Software Engineer

Likhith is a Software Engineer who likes diving into adjacent fields in hopes of becoming

Marcus Gerhardt

Co-Founder, CEO & CFO

Marcus is CEO of Blackrock Microsystems and Board Director of Neuromed. Marcus has an MPhil

Moritz Leber, PhD

Technical Lead & Project Manager

Moritz received his PhD form the University of Utah, as well as a Dipl.-Ing. (M.Sc.)

Professor Florian Solzbacher

Co-founder, Chairman & President

Florian is Director of the Center for Engineering Innovation at the University of Utah, Co-Director

Rajmohan Bhandari, PhD

Director of Electrode Business

Raj received his PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Utah and

Sherman Wiebe, PhD, MBA

Senior Technical Advisor Blackrock Microsystems Europe

Sherman has over 17 years of experience in the neuroscience research field. He earned degrees

Shuai Wang, PhD

Senior Technical Sales Consultant

Shuai Wang completed his Bachelor’s degree at Nanchang U, China, in Life Sciences and then

Stephen Hou

Support Engineer

Stephen received his B.S. in biomedical engineering at the Johns Hopkins University, then went on