Chapter 1023 America’s Shattered Hopes

Chapter 1023 The United States' shattered hope~

Starlight Virtual Reality Technology Company launched a brain-computer interface chip + bionics intelligent prosthesis, allowing disabled people who lack limbs to return to normal life.

At the beginning, this news did not cause much response on the Internet.

After all, this kind of news will be exposed once or twice a year, just like the previous room-temperature superconducting materials, which will cause a sensation in the material industry every year, but will eventually be confirmed to be false news.

This kind of subversive technology, every year different countries and different companies will stand up and say that they have done it, but in fact, there is still a long way to go before they can really do it.

At first, everyone thought that this little-known Starlight Technology was the same, just a gimmick to fool people.

But later, as the shareholders behind this company, which is almost unknown in China, broke out, everyone discovered that this was actually done by their famous Academician Xu.

For a time, this sudden news broke directly on the Internet.

Especially when Starlight Technology released some phased videos of clinical medical experiments on its official website, related topics exploded like a nuclear bomb on almost all online platforms that can communicate, including Weibo, βhu, Bilibili, etc.

[What the hell? Brain-computer interface chip + bionics intelligent prosthesis? ]

[Hiss~, have you seen the video? The disabled people in the clinical experiment are even more flexible than normal people! ]

[Not only that, normal people can't bend their fingers and wrists, this mechanical arm is simply a bunker! ]

[What the hell! This is crazy! ]

[Everyone, the era of evolution! It's here! ]

[Flesh and blood are weak, and machinery ascends! If all of this is replaced with a mechanical arm, and then equipped with shells or particle weapons, wouldn't it be a one-on-one fight? ]

[Iron Man's Mark armor is not a dream! ]

[Does no one care about brain-computer interface chips? If this technology develops a little further, it will be virtual reality technology! ]

[The kind that can play games by wearing a helmet? 】

[Why are you in such a hurry? Academician Xu will take action! 】

The discussion on the Internet has exploded.

The video uploaded by Starlight Virtual Reality Technology of the disabled person conducting clinical trials is really too shocking.

In the video, the various tests performed by the disabled person wearing bionic intelligent prosthesis almost shocked everyone.

From basic functions such as walking, running, serving tea and pouring water, to delicate work such as picking up pens and writing, picking up food with chopsticks, and some functions that normal people's arms and legs cannot do, all are shown in the video.

If there were still people who doubted that Starlight Technology's brain-computer interface chip technology and bionic intelligent prosthesis were just gimmicks at the beginning, now almost no one would doubt that the company really did it.

Especially standing behind Starlight Technology is Academician Xu.

It is no exaggeration to say that everyone who knows him knows the style of this scholar standing at the top of the academic pyramid. He has never cheated in scientific research.

At the same time, on the other side of the Pacific coast.

NeuroPace Neurotechnology Co., Ltd., California, USA.

This is a high-tech company founded in 1997 and headquartered in California, USA, dedicated to treating epilepsy through responsive stimulation of brain implants.

As early as 2013, the company's "epileptic neurostimulator" was approved by the FDA and entered the market.

This is a medical device similar to an automatic cardiac defibrillator in principle.

A cardiac defibrillator can detect and terminate arrhythmias, while the "RNS epilepsy neurostimulator" can continuously monitor brain waves and immediately release electrical stimulation to stop epileptic seizures when it identifies the EEG signals before an epileptic seizure.

It is no exaggeration to say that in the field of neuroscience, NeuroPace Neurotechnology Co., Ltd. is a truly ancient company.

The Neuralink brain-computer interface company previously established by Musk is like a baby who was born a few months ago in front of it.

At this moment, in the headquarters building of NeuroPace, a brain neural interface experiment is underway.

A patient who was paralyzed due to a stroke is sitting in front of a huge screen, on which is a virtual person who looks similar to her.

When the patient named 'Annie' wants to speak, with the help of a brain-computer interface installed under the cortex of the brain, the virtual person will speak for her - using her own voice.

"How is the research going?"

Standing in the laboratory, quietly waiting for the experiment to be completed, Anderson Root, deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, asked.

Standing next to him, Professor Wilson Morton, general manager of the brain-computer interface chip of NeuroPace Neurotechnology Co., Ltd., said with a smile:

"After optimization, the BCI neural conversion language system has made great progress. As early as two years ago, we could only convert speech into text at a speed of 78 words per minute."

"And now, Anne has achieved a normal average speaking speed of nearly 150 words per minute. According to the current progress, it will take at most one year for us to bring the BCI neural conversion language system to the market!"

"It will open up a new market for us!"

"And if we can continue to go deeper and solve the virtual reality technology, we will completely change the world!"

Hearing this answer, Anderson Root, who was standing in the laboratory, finally showed a smile on his face.

"Half a year!"

"I will give you at most another half a year. I want to see the fully mature BCI neural conversion language system come out!"

After a series of failures in the fields of energy, aerospace and chips, the US authorities urgently need to make new progress in the high-tech field, so they adjusted policies on a large scale and invested funds in AI intelligence, virtual reality technology and other fields.

With the adjustment of policies, these relatively unpopular fields have suddenly expanded. With tens of billions of US dollars invested, related companies established in Silicon Valley and San Francisco are already numerous.

And NeuroPace Neurotechnology is one of the key companies favored by the Department of Health and Public Services. In the past year, they have invested at least 3 billion US dollars in funds and related technical support.

Now, it is finally time for them to reap the rewards.

Across the laboratory, Professor Wilson Morton still had a smile on his face, but when he heard the other party's request, he subconsciously retorted: "That's impossible. Okay, I'll try my best."

"But you have to know that it's not just the difficulties in neural conversion that limit our BCI neural voice converter from being put on the market, but also the FDA's review."

Hearing this question, Anderson Root said noncommittally: "For disabled patients who have lost their language function, the BCI neural voice converter is their hope to regain communication with the outside world."

"This is a product that benefits the world. I believe the FDA will open a pass for us."

The FDA is the highest law enforcement agency specializing in food and drug management, authorized by the U.S. Congress, that is, the federal government.

It is a government health control monitoring agency composed of professionals such as doctors, lawyers, microbiologists, chemists and statisticians dedicated to protecting, promoting and improving national health.

For any food, drug, medical device, cosmetics and other products entering the United States, they must be certified by it before they can be put on the market.

Many foreign products often fail in the FDA certification application before entering the United States.

However, for domestic companies in the United States, especially high-tech companies like them, the FDA is often not a restriction, but a helper.

After all, the greatness of the United States needs these high-tech companies to support it, and it is not a big problem for the FDA to provide some convenience for their products at the right time.

If necessary, they can even use the FDA to restrict the flow of competing products from other countries into the United States, or suppress them.

Looking at patient Anne wearing a brain-computer interface chip, Anderson Root was silent for a while, and suddenly asked.

"Speaking of which, I remember that in addition to the neural voice converter, NeuroPace's brain-computer interface chip laboratory is also studying coding limb movement technology. How is that research going now?"

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Coding limb movement technology, that is, brain-computer interface technology for motor function.

The main development algorithm reconstructs the control of motor cortex neurons over movement. This research can be traced back to the 1970s.

Simply put, it is to sense brain waves through the brain-computer interface chip, and then control sufficiently complex mechanical products.

For example, prostheses, robots, etc.

The further development of this technology is virtual reality technology.

As early as the last century, NeuroPace Neurotechnology had already laid out research in this area, but virtual reality technology has never been a very popular field.

After all, there are too many troubles and problems that need to be solved.

Hearing this question, Professor Wilson thought for a while and said: "From our recent experiments, it is completely feasible to further derive virtual reality technology through brain-computer interface chips, which we have confirmed."

"But to complete this technology, we need to solve the biggest problem of virtual reality technology, that is, the problem of accurate conversion of brain waves and neural signals."

"In this area, we have not made much progress at present."

"Of course, to be precise, it should be that there is no progress in countries around the world. After all, compared with the neural voice converter we are studying, the complete virtual reality technology is countless times more complex in terms of information transmission, sensory organs, central nervous system and other functions."

"Don't even mention virtual reality. Even if you use a brain-computer interface chip to control a mechanical arm, the information and functions that need to be transmitted are hundreds or thousands of times more complex than the neural voice converter."

Hearing Professor Wilson's explanation, Anderson Rutte nodded, but didn't say anything.

This Professor Wilson Morton was originally a top scholar at Harvard University. He is an absolute authority in the field of neurotechnology and a member of the US Academy of Sciences. NeuroPace spent a lot of money to dig him up.

Anderson is willing to believe his words.

If even he says it is difficult, I believe that other companies will not be able to complete this technology before NeuroPace completes the brain-computer interface chip technology.

Especially countries outside the United States, it is even more impossible.

Nodding, he looked at Wilson Morton and said, "I need you to complete the neural voice converter technology within half a year, and then put all your energy into the coding body movement technology."

"I need to see a breakthrough in the coding body movement technology within two years, which is related to the layout of the entire high-tech field in the United States."

As he was speaking, the door of the laboratory was gently pushed open, and a young female assistant in uniform walked in quickly and whispered a few words in Professor Wilson Morton's ear.

After hearing the assistant's report, Wilson Morton's smile, which was originally relaxed and happy, suddenly froze.

He quickly "grabbed" the tablet from the assistant and clicked on the news headlines inside.

When his eyes swept over the headlines of the news, his dark green pupils suddenly shrank, and the smile on his face completely disappeared.

"Damn it!"

"This is impossible!"

Across the laboratory, Anderson Root was stunned for a moment after hearing Professor Wilson's curse, and then he came to his senses and asked curiously: "What happened?"

"See for yourself."

After taking a deep breath, Wilson Morton didn't care about etiquette or anything. He frowned and handed over the tablet in his hand with a heavy face.

If this is true, then they have invested billions of funds in researching "hope", and now it will all be shattered.

Without any pause, the deputy director of the Department of Health and Human Services quickly took the tablet and his eyes fell on the news on it.

When his eyes saw the lines of news reports, he was stunned.

"Starlight Virtual Reality Technology Co., Ltd., jointly controlled by Professor Xu Chuan of China and his sister Xu Xiao, has officially launched brain-computer interface chips and bionic intelligent prosthetic technology."

"It is understood that this technology can enable disabled people who have lost their arms or legs to resume normal life."

"From the clinical medical experiment videos currently released by Starlight Technology, we can clearly see that the experimenters wearing bionic mechanical prostheses can live like normal people, and even do many actions that normal limbs cannot do."

"According to an interview with a professor of neuroscience, this technology is very likely to derive virtual reality technology. Our reporter is going to China to conduct in-depth interviews on the specific situation of this technology. If you want to know the follow-up, please pay attention to the reports of our media."

When the relevant news came into view, Anderson Root was completely dumbfounded.

Brain-computer interface chips and bionic intelligent prosthetic technology?

How is this possible!

Especially when the video released by Starlight Technology was played, he was shaking unconsciously as if he had fallen into an ice cave in Antarctica.

Damn, when did China have such advanced technology in brain-computer interface chips?