Interesting insights from Brainlab CEO Rainer Birkenbach on LinkedIn:
At a conference held today in Munich, Michi Mehringer, who has 256 microelectrodes implanted in his brain, gave a speech. Mehringer is the first European patient to control a cursor with his thoughts. Birkenbach writes:
“The skill required to make this possible is extraordinary. Implanting microelectrodes in the brain demands absolute precision because every millimeter matters—in cranial surgery, there is no such thing as "close enough" … together with our partner Nexstim, nTMS in experienced hands allows critical brain surface areas for a BCI implant to be identified and mapped preoperatively—with high precision and without a single incision … I left that stage more convinced than ever that we are standing at the beginning of a new era.”
This again underlines the precision that seems to be one of Nexstim’s core competitive advantages and is enabling new breakthroughs. I have no idea what kind of revenue BCI could bring to Nexstim, but at the very least, the social impacts are significant. As Birkenbach writes: “This is what technology is for”.