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Theo Farrant

Paralysed man controls devices with his mind just five days after brain implant surgery in China

A 28-year-old man, paralysed by a high-level spinal cord injury for eight years, has successfully controlled devices using only his mind just five days after undergoing implant surgery in China.

The breakthrough forms part of the country’s first clinical trial of a fully implanted, fully wireless, fully functional brain-computer interface (BCI).

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