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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

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

Paralysed Man Feeds Himself with Help of Implants

Paralysed Man Feeds Himself with Help of Implants By BBC News 29 March 2017 A paralysed man has been able to feed himself by using his thoughts to send messages from implants in his brain to ones in his arm. Bill Kochevar, who was paralysed in a cycling accident, said he was "wowed" to…

March 29, 2017

Brain–Computer Interface Allows Speediest Typing to Date

Brain–Computer Interface Allows Speediest Typing to Date By Simon Wakin for Scientific American 21 February 2017 A new interface system allowed three paralyzed individuals to type words up to four times faster than the speed that had been demonstrated in earlier studies A participant…

February 21, 2017

In a Medical First, Brain Implant Allows Paralyzed Man to Feel Again

In a Medical First, Brain Implant Allows Paralyzed Man to Feel Again By Amy Ellis Nutt for The Washington Post 13 October 2016 University of Pittsburgh Medical Center researcher Robert Gaunt touches the finger of a robotic arm, causing Nathan Copeland, who has paralysis in all four limbs, to…

October 13, 2016

Prosthetic Hand ‘Tells’ the Brain what it is Touching

Prosthetic Hand 'Tells' the Brain what it is Touching By Carina Storrs for CNN 16 September 2015 WASHINGTON (CNN) — Research on prosthetic hands has come a long way, but most of it has focused on improving the way the body controls the device. Now, it may also be possible for prosthetic…

September 16, 2015

New Prosthetic Arm Can Restore Lost Sense of Touch, DARPA Claims

New Prosthetic Arm Can Restore Lost Sense of Touch, DARPA Claims By Rachel Feltman for The Washington Post 15 September 2015 The limb, developed by Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) at Johns Hopkins University. (DARPA) The latest mind-controlled, robotic arm can send sensations of touch…

September 15, 2015

Thought-Controlled Prosthesis Offers More ‘Tap Precision’

Thought-Controlled Prosthesis Offers More ‘Tap Precision’ By Tom Abate for Stanford News 03 August 2015 Years of work have yielded a technique that continuously corrects brain readings to give people with spinal cord injuries a more precise way to tap out commands by using a…

August 3, 2015

How Your Brain Remembers Where You Parked The Car

How Your Brain Remembers Where You Parked The Car By Jon Hamilton for NPR 1 July 2015 David Williams/Illustration Works/Corbis If you run into an old friend at the train station, your brain will probably form a memory of the experience. And that memory will forever link the person you saw…

July 1, 2015

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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