Beijing News Shell Finance News (reported by Lin Zi) -- On March 22, the 2026 annual meeting of the China Development Forum opened. Han Bicheng, founder and CEO of BrainCo, told Beijing News Shell Finance that in the next 5-10 years, BrainCo hopes to help one million people with physical disabilities to be equipped with neuro-controlled prosthetics to return to a normal life, and assist ten million patients with brain diseases to relieve pain and restore health. Han Bicheng believes that brain-computer interfaces will achieve breakthroughs in four major directions in the near future: restoring walking freedom for the elderly, solving blindness problems for the visually impaired, achieving early intervention for Alzheimer's disease, and addressing insomnia issues at the neural level. In the more distant future, the imaginative space for brain-computer interfaces far exceeds medical treatment and rehabilitation.
Han Bicheng stated that the company is now increasing its R&D efforts, hoping that in the future, China can become the first country in the world without physical disabilities, where every disabled person can live a new life with prosthetics.
On the question of whether there is a development rule similar to the semiconductor industry's "Moore's Law" in the brain-computer interface field, Han Bicheng responded: "The neural signals of the brain are extremely weak signals, approximately ±50 microvolts, which is one millionth of a AA battery, so the difficulty of capturing such signals is very high."
"We founded this company about 10 years ago with the idea of creating a brain-computer interface device that everyone could use. Building this system, sensors are crucial. To provide a high-throughput, low-latency, and highly capable information analysis sensor architecture, we have always focused on the underlying architecture and data parsing."
"This year, many products have achieved new breakthroughs. For instance, in Elon Musk’s recent presentation, they hope to perform craniotomy surgery on the human head using invasive methods to help people with disabilities control prosthetics with their thoughts. However, we have already realized a solution where individuals don’t need to undergo craniotomy surgery—just by wearing the prosthetic, it can detect extremely faint signals sent from the brain through nerves. Our physically disabled individuals can use it to write; a person without hands can control the prosthetic with their thoughts to write, draw, play the piano, type on a keyboard, and even return to work and daily life."
Han Bicheng stated that in terms of the absolute value of R&D investment, BrainCo is currently one of the top three companies in the world. "In terms of industrialization, we have spent 11 years bringing a laboratory technology into daily life, which has been an extremely challenging process because we are dealing with the weakest signals in the human body—neural signals."
Regarding the question of whether to firmly choose the non-invasive technology route, Han Bicheng stated: "Not really. I think we are a company focused on solving brain-related problems. For example, we are also very concerned about the blind population now. There may be more than 10 million blind people in China, but blindness needs to be addressed with invasive methods because the amount of information input is very large, and it is difficult to achieve with non-invasive methods. We are also paying attention to invasive-related research at the same time."
Editor: Yue Cai Zhou
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