{
  "id": 10876,
  "url": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3360684/china-completes-worlds-first-commercial-brain-computer-interface-implant",
  "title": "China completes world’s first commercial brain-computer interface implant",
  "summary": "China has completed the world’s first commercial surgery using an invasive brain-computer interface (BCI) device approved in March, marking a leap in the country’s neurotechnology push to rival Elon Musk’s Neuralink. Chinese surgeons implanted a coin-sized brain chip on a patient with impaired hand mobility linked to a spinal cord injury from a car accident 10 years ago, according to a statement from the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality on Wednesday. The procedure,...",
  "authors": "Iris Deng",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "healthcare",
  "orgs": "xai",
  "regions": "china",
  "published_at": "2026-07-15T14:00:06.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-16T05:10:56.605Z",
  "source_slug": "x-scmp-tech-hk-cn",
  "source_name": "SCMP Tech (HK/CN)",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.scmp.com/tech",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/10876",
  "original_url": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3360684/china-completes-worlds-first-commercial-brain-computer-interface-implant",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}