private-startup · medical-implant · research-grade
NeuroXess
China's flexible-electrode brain interface.
Shanghai implantable-BCI startup developing a flexible-electrode array for invasive recording. Achieved China's first-in-human flexible-electrode BCI in 2025 with Huashan Hospital.
At a glance
- Legal name
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- Aliases
- 脑虎科技, Brain Tiger
- Type
- private-startup
- Focus areas
- medical-implant, research-grade, communication-aac
- Founded
- Defunct
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- Spinout of
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- HQ city
- Shanghai
- HQ country
- CN
- Employees
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- Flagship device
- neuroxess-bci
- Product lines
- 1
Devices
People
Founders
Tao Hu
Co-Founder, CEO
Milestones
NeuroXess founded in Shanghai
First-in-human flexible-electrode BCI
Mandarin speech decoding in a tetraplegic patient at Huashan Hospital, Fudan University.
Reputation
Among the most advanced of China's implantable-BCI startups; positioned alongside StairMed and others as domestic competition to Neuralink, with state-backed clinical-trial pipeline.