Beijing, Sept. 21 -- A team of Chinese scientists has developed a new, soft and movable implantable electrode that could overcome some of the biggest challenges holding back brain-computer interfaces.
The study, led by researchers from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Donghua University, which is located in Shanghai, was recently published in the journal Nature.
According to the study, most neural implants rely on rigid, static electrodes that remain fixed once surgically placed. This immobility severely limits their performance -- they can only capture signals from a single site, while neural and muscular activities often shift across time and space. As a result, important in...