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Health & biology · June 2026

Implanted speech BCI trial

The first FDA-approved trial of a fully implanted speech prosthesis begins.

Surgeons at University of Michigan Health implanted Paradromics' 421-electrode Connexus device in a woman with motor neuron disease, the first patient in the Connect-One trial to restore speech with a fully implanted brain-computer interface.

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