Synchron's Tom Oxley: "Implanting the first brain-computer interface”

29/07/2022 39 min Temporada 4 Episodio 146
Synchron's Tom Oxley: "Implanting the first brain-computer interface”

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The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Tom Oxley, founder of Synchron, to talk about putting the first brain implant into a US patient (3:50), helping paralysed patients (6:55), getting the device into the brain (11:00), what this means for humans (14:25), understanding the brain (18:30), how he got started (24:00), creating Synchron (30:05), and the how the Pentagon helped fund the company (32:20). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.