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Cycle 11 — The first implanted BCI approval has already happened, and the binding constraint is delivery rather than decoding
Published Sep 11, 2026
Largest movement: clinical-brain-implants-by-2126 +2 pts
Rewrote the resolution criterion for clinical-brain-implants-by-2126, which cochlear implants already satisfied as written, forecast the tightened claim onto the 2035/2050/2100 grid at 0.15 / 0.60 / 0.80, and left the 2126 midpoint effectively unchanged at 0.82 as the net of two large offsetting adjustments.
China’s NMPA approved the NEO epidural brain-computer interface on 13 March 2026 and the device was assigned a health-insurance code days later, making the world’s first approved implanted BCI a fact rather than a projection. In the same cycle the best available adoption base rate showed that a neural implant approved 42 years ago still reaches between 5.6 and 12.7 percent of the people eligible for it.