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The BCI Briefing

CompaniesWho is building it?

Who is building the future?

A landscape, not a logo wall. Each organisation is placed by how its interface reaches the nervous system and by its clinical stage, and is labelled with the kind of work it does, so that a company decoding from the brain is never counted together with one that stimulates a nerve or builds the instruments.

20
core BCI
20
wider landscape
13
countries

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Directory

Grouped by what each organisation does. Only the first two groups are counted as BCI companies; the others belong to the wider neural-interface landscape and are counted under their own class. How we decide

Core BCI19

Records activity from the brain and decodes it into a command, text, speech or movement for the person it is recorded from.

Bidirectional BCI1

Reads from the brain and writes back to the nervous system in the same system, with the reading shaping the stimulation.

Neural interface8

Hardware that records from or stimulates the brain and is being developed toward BCI use, without a demonstrated closed decoding application yet.

Neuroprosthetic3

Replaces a lost sensory or motor function by stimulating the nervous system, without decoding the user's intent from the brain.

Neuromodulation5

Stimulates the nervous system to treat a condition. Systems that sense neural activity and adapt to it (closed loop) are where the class meets BCI. Open-loop systems are profiled only where they bear on the field, and are never counted as BCI.

Peripheral / neuromotor interface2

Reads intent outside the brain, from muscle or peripheral nerve, and uses it to control a device.

Bioelectronic medicine1

Interfaces with a peripheral nerve, most often the vagus nerve, to treat disease in an organ system. Nothing is decoded from the brain and no sense or movement is restored.

Adjacent technology1

Surrounds the field without being an interface to the nervous system for control or restoration.

* The stage carries a qualification; see the profile. The directory is a curated set, chosen for significance and checked against sources, not a census. Organisations we know of and have not yet verified are listed as leads on the regional report, not here. If a company is missing, suggest an addition.