Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates-backed startup tests brain implant that can control technology
Synchron, a US-based brain interface startup backed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, is working on technology designed to transform daily life for people with paralysis.
The company, which had in December announced a $75 million financing round that included funding from the investment firms of Gates and Bezos, is one of the emerging crop of companies testing technology in the brain-computer interface industry.
Its Synchron Switch allows patients to operate technology such as cursors and smart home devices using only their minds.
It is implanted through blood vessels and the experimental technology has been tested on three patients in the US and four in Australia so far.
“I’ve seen moments between patient and partner, or patient and spouse, where it’s incredibly joyful and empowering to have regained an ability to be a little bit more independent than before,” Synchron CEO Tom Oxley. “It helps them engage in ways we take for granted.”
This allowed Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos to enter the burgeoning Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) industry, most famously Neuralink, fueled by the fame of founder and tech billionaire Elon Musk.
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