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

The Times Tech Podcast

• Episode: Synchron's Tom Oxley: "Implanting the first brain-computer interface”
• Website: The Times Tech Podcast
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• Duration: 00:39:36
• Published: 2022-07-29 04:00

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).

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